Re: More memory == better?

antirez (antirez@invece.org)
Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:15:01 +0200

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:10:38PM +0200, DevilKin wrote:
[snip]
> I must say that even with most of my applications loaded/running, the system
> never even touches the swap partition.
>
> So, would it be wise?

If the applications you run are very disk-intensive probably the
answer is yes, since free memory is used as disk cache.

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