[colug-432] Swap science, was: Install and Manually Partition Debian

[Rick Troth]

On 03/16/2014 05:20 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> Why as to a large swap?  In the former times a swap 2X 
> physical ram 'ruled the roost'.  More recent lore is 'if 
> you are into swap', you are paying a high price for r/w 
> speeds onto spining rust

In other environments, they call it paging. You want "good paging" (as
in good performance w/r/t paging overhead). Hence ...

    There's no paging like no paging.


-- R; <><



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