<yourcasperbr> hi pls i would like to know if theres anyway to make cache memory load on swap file instead of loading on physical memory
<karynn> yourcasperbr: uh, cache memory?
<yourcasperbr> karynn yeah like making swap only in swap
<yourcasperbr> no on physical memory
<karynn> yourcasperbr: that makes no sense
<yourcasperbr> i have a terrible english let me try to explain a little better
<yourcasperbr> karynn : the linux loads everything in physical memory right
<karynn> yourcasperbr: not necessarily
<yourcasperbr> karynn : i mean is there anyway to load that system cache on swap and not onto physical
<karynn> yourcasperbr: 'system cache'?
<karynn> yourcasperbr: there is absolutely no point in putting cache on swap. that would defeat the point of having cache in the first place.
<tra1a1a> yourcasperbr, if you do this it will be the same as disableing the cache at all
<yourcasperbr> karynn : sorry my mistake
<karynn> yourcasperbr: i don't understand what you want to do.
<yourcasperbr> karynn : i mean aplications
<karynn> yourcasperbr: or why you want to do it
<karynn> yourcasperbr: the linux loader maps the puretext of an application directly from the image file, and allocates swap-backed virtual memory for the application's impure text, bss, and heap
<karynn> yourcasperbr: not all of the puretext is necessary loaded into real memory at startup, if the application is very large, the rest will be loaded on demand when needed.
<yourcasperbr> karynn : thats what im talking about
<yourcasperbr> karynn : linux uses all memory
<karynn> yourcasperbr: well, of course it does, who else is going to use it?
<yourcasperbr> karynn : is there anyway to load part of memory on swap
<karynn> yourcasperbr: swap is part of your memory.
<yourcasperbr> karynn : cause its really slow sometimes
<yourcasperbr> i have 512 of memory
<yourcasperbr> linux is using 486 mb of that memory
<karynn> yourcasperbr: linux is using all of that memory
<karynn> yourcasperbr: linux always uses all of your memory.
<yourcasperbr> karynn : im asking if theres anyway to put the disk cache directly on swap
<karynn> yourcasperbr: that would be an absolutely preposterous thing to do
<yourcasperbr> i start 3 programs and my computer starts to get really slow
<yourcasperbr> karynn : pardon me??? terrible english what means preposterous??
<karynn> yourcasperbr: ridiculous. stupid. unwise. having no merit at all.
<yourcasperbr> karynn : but is there a way??