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Yes, also in Windows. So it's another reason to have a swap partition, but not to actually swap to it in normal operation.
by marshray 14y ago
Yes, also in Windows. So it's another reason to have a swap partition, but not to actually swap to it in normal operation.
- jlgreco 14y agoNo harm swapping to it if you have it, as far as I can tell.
- marshray 14y agoIf you have a server attempting to process a steady stream of incoming transactions at the edge of its capacity and it begins turning memory IO operations into disk IO (which is 1000 times slower), that is harmful to response times.
- jlgreco 14y agoThere probably isn't a lot of sense in having swap for suspend to disk on a server anyway of course. I've only heard the heuristic in the context of workstations/laptops.