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Hello Pascal - 

JB>>> If you can buy a CPU twice the speed (or twice as many)
JB>>> with the money you save on ram swap can be good. 

CA>> Possibly. But at some point you lose the option to double
CA>> CPU speed. 

PS> Well, two times the CPU power is worth absolutely nothing
PS> if your system is forced to swap stuff in and out all the
PS> time. You lose quite a lot of performance by having to wait
PS> for the hard disk. Going to disk is easily worth thousands
PS> of machine cycles on GHz CPUs. 

Yes, that was my original comment. With enough memory who needs
a swap file etc. 

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