sleeping processes and swap

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:01:19 -0700
"Michael Havens" <bmike101 at 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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