WDef
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Posted: Dec. 15 2005,10:31 |
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Perhaps one thing I didn't make clear is that, once swap gets filled during the large file copy, the copying process slows right down and so do subsequent file copies. noswap stops this behaviour (didn't I say that? - no matter) - ramdisk obviously can't be remounted at a larger size including the size of swap if there's no swap.
But what of users with +++ram, who try dsl and find their existing swap being used, but don't know about noswap or the expanded ramdisk, and then find some file copying grinds to a near halt?
This caters for low ram users, who are a significant segment (but not all) of dsl users, and by all accounts this is very helpful indeed to them, so they need to be able to at very least switch it on.
The question I'm raising is: I'm not convinced this behavior should be on by default when, as time goes by, more users are bound to have adequate amounts of ram, and therefore not need this hack, which does seem to exact a performance penalty in the case I described?
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