"Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" wrote:
Some time after the 2.4 release, LinuS had announced that the swap requirements will stay that way until 2.5 The reason has something to do with the way disk caches are handled, which will be reworked in the 2.5 kernel
Can anyone (also) on the kernel-mailing list shed some more light on this. That would surely lead to more efficiency.