Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Sebastian Beßler" <sebastian@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:06:43
Message-Id: 4DDE5654.1010507@darkmetatron.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance by Alan McKinnon
1 Am 25.05.2011 22:07, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
2
3 > I'd be interested to hear any current use cases where swap delivers a provable
4 > benefit.
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6 I need swap to build openoffice/libreoffice, my 8GB of RAM are not
7 sufficient all the time for the tmpfs of /var/tmp/portage when building
8 that.
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11 But aside of that swap is useless and absolutly overrated. I have
12 swapness set to 5 and work with that without problems for nearly a year
13 now.

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