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| 193789 | 2003-11-22 23:00:00 | Fundamental Principal perhaps, but I have 512MB RAM, and my OS (Slackware Linux 9.1) only uses 150MB for all my open apps. The rest of my RAM is promptly filled up with Disk Cache of the apps I use/mp3's/proxy cache. Why should I use my SWAP file (partition in Linux's case) which is hundred of times slower??? I have oodles of RAM left, which could be put to a better use than using the SWAP. ESPECIALLY considering that in ALL Windows XP/2K System's Ive checked, there's free RAM, yet the swap file is being used? Why?? |
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| 193790 | 2003-11-22 23:12:00 | If linux uses a disk cache in the RAM, then windows uses the swap file on the hard drive instead of storing the apps cache in the RAM. That would mean pretty good performance for the linux box, but what if you were able to run a game like BF1942 on linux, then I suspect it would suffer a bit as there was not as much RAM to use as it was full of other programs. | aroc (3256) | ||
| 193791 | 2003-11-22 23:29:00 | Not really coz Linux is smart enough to clear the cache whenever another app wants to use it... So applications get the priority, and Cache fills it up. For anybody who's interested in looking this up in XP, hit Ctrl + Shift + Esc Click the Performance tab have a look at that, and then view the relevant help topics on what each one does.... You'll see that Doze Always uses the Swap file, even if theres RAM to spare! |
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| 193792 | 2003-11-24 06:00:00 | by default windows only creates 1 pagefile (as far as i've ever seen anyway). | nadius (3249) | ||
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