[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

[Lance A. Brown]

I've found the performance penalty for going into swap anymore is so
steep that it almost always make sense to just buy more RAM.  Hell, the
only time my linux boxes at work (desktops and servers) go into swap is
when someone does something egregious with a large dataset anymore.
Watching a 3.0Ghz Core 2 Duo box tank its CPU effectiveness when a
MATLAB job gets enormous is painful.

--[Lance]

Steve Litt said the following on 4/16/2010 9:50 PM:
> Disk space is cheap. I have 8GB of RAM.
> 
> STeveT
> 

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