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Nostalgia: Bye bye swap cache!Nostalgia: Bye bye swap cache!Posted Oct 23, 2008 14:31 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)Parent article: 2.6.28 merge window, part 2
Another VM improvement causes the system to free a page's swap space after that page is brought back into RAM; this effectively increases the amount of swap available on the system. I remember hearing about the swap cache waaaaay back when (2.0 or earlier). Granted, the VM's changed a lot since then. So, with this change, is the swap cache going away?
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Nostalgia: Bye bye swap cache! Posted Oct 23, 2008 17:40 UTC (Thu) by riel (subscriber, #3142) [Link]
No, the swap cache is still there. However, since nowadays many systems have more RAM than swap, it makes sense to be a little more aggressive about freeing swap space, while in the days where systems had little RAM and lots of swap it made sense to hang on to swap space.
Nostalgia: Bye bye swap cache! Posted Oct 23, 2008 21:09 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]
... but nowadays we have suspend-to-disk which require a lot of swap-space
to be on the safe side, and disk-space is cheap.
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