Am 26.05.2012 07:45, schrieb Joel Rees: >>> Do you understand the reason you still set up swap, even though your >>> entire workload working set fits into RAM? >> >> there is no single reason if you have enough RAM > > In an ideal world, RAM would not consume energy. > > This is a real world, what energy I have on the train is a small > Lithium ion battery. why in the world do you wake up this thread after weeks again? hibernate does not inerest me but i can not see people argumentating t echnically wrong it does not change anything if yopu are swap out all your applications because you will ALWYAS have 100% RAM used on any unix-like system and even if - machines with 1 GB RAM are loughable these days since i remember that a yum-upgrade was killed with a OOM om a virtual machine witout GUI braindead developers cosuming ressources for nothing this is not new remember in 2003 where i had aa machine with 192 MB RAM running Win2000, Photoshop, CorelDrwaw and VMware with a linux-guest and these days a f**ing updater needs much more __________________________________ the argumentation of the crazy guy above was that RAm is better used for caching as for unused running applications which is completly wrong where in the world is the benefit having applications swapped out for chaching the blocks of a 2 GB vieo file moved around and not touching for weeks
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