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ogronom

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2008-05-06

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[SOLVED] swap usage when there is plenty of ram availibale

Hi guys, I'm not sure if this is correct subforum, but here is the question

By default linux kernel uses swap partition even if there is lots of ram availiable. What's the purpose of this? And is there a way to turn this off in Arch.

Last edited by ogronom (2008-11-03 18:59:10)

ogronom

Member

From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 123

Re: [SOLVED] swap usage when there is plenty of ram availibale

found 2 articles (pretty old) about this issue
http://www.beranger.org/index.php?article=1547&page=3k
http://lwn.net/Articles/83588/