On Sunday 06 November 2011 17:32:54 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > 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. I've got three boxes with this problem here. Hense my support for frontswap/cleancache. Ed > > 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.... -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>