Re: sleeping processes and swap

but I'm maxed out in RAM so I suppose I live with a slow system.

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:35:24 -0700, Dennis Kibbe
<dennisk@linuxquestions.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:01:19 -0700
> "Michael Havens" <bmike101@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I tell ya', if there is a way to do this it would make all computers
>> lightning fast.
>
> Mike,
>
> The time tested way to make a computer faster is to add physical RAM.
> Linux will use excess physical RAM as a chashe to store data it thinks
> it might need again.
>
> Using swap for any reason is a stop-gapo for not having enough RAM since
> swap is sooo much s-l-o-w-e-r.
>
> dennisk



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