Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT, John Stoffel said:
> Dan> "WHY" this is such a good idea is the same as WHY it is useful to
> Dan> add RAM to your systems. 
>
> So why would I use this instead of increasing the physical RAM?

You're welcome to buy me a new laptop that has a third DIMM slot. :)

There's a lot of people running hardware that already has the max amount of
supported RAM, and who for budget or legacy-support reasons can't easily do a
forklift upgrade to a new machine.

> if I've got a large system which cannot physically use any more
> memory, then it might be worth my while to use TMEM to get more
> performance out of this expensive hardware.

It's not always a large system....

Attachment: pgpkjqxublT9z.pgp
Description: PGP signature


[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]