Felix Miata wrote:

Right now on my 2.6.31 system referred to above, which has 4G of RAM and no swap partition enabled, with 5 web browsers with 100+ tabs open among them, and several other X apps open scattered among 6 virtual desktops, and Apache running in background, 51% of RAM is consumed by cache. I really don't see the point of having dedicated swap partition(s) on a typical desktop or laptop system.

Well, with several VMs running, two open Eclipses, two Web browsers, and several other tools, my 8 GB workspace currently has just 1.5-2 GB cache left. swap is more often used here than I imagined when I bought the desktop. I'm already thinking about upgrading to 16 GB. Ah yes, and of course it got RAID-1, as all our workstations have. Two days ago, one of the disks broke down. (Lesson learned: Nagios' smart_check_all is not a replacement for real smartd checks and email notifications by smartd.) I'm happily running with a degraded (software) RAID until Friday, when I'll have time to shut down and insert the new disk. Without RAID-1, I would have to scramble to get a new workstation running or the old one repaired at a very inconvient time while clients wait for deliverables. Disk prices are too cheap nowadays to not use RAID-1, even on workstations, IMHO. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org