On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:58:01AM -0500, James Harr wrote: > From what I understand, swap (as most people refer to it, aka paged memory) > is managed by the operating system, and not the application. In fact, in > order to avoid memory being swapped out to disk, you have to go out of your > way by locking the memory.
Yes, that's the way it is. Swap is part of virtual memory. > Gnupg does this to prevent people from stealing > the keys from the swap file. There are some applications (I encounter quite > a few on the cluster I run) that generate their own swap file manually (as > in they had to code for it, they treat it more as a database than memory), > but this is generally because they were written to run with large data sets > in a 32 bit environment. There are some cases where it makes sense to do own memory management because you are able to optimize it for your application. GIMP is an example of such an application: You tell it how much RAM (=virtual OS memory) it may use, above that it will swap to it's own file. [...] > Anyway, not like it matters. I'm using the method you suggested earlier of > rsyncing each directory. This way you have to run BackupPC_link and this will take very long. Why don't you do it the other way around - transfer the pool/cpool via tar, ignoring hardlinks, then use BackupPC_tarPCCopy to build special tar archives with hardlinks to the pools only. Should be faster. HTH, Tino. -- www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.spiritualdesign-chemnitz.de www.forteego.de Tino Schwarze * Lortzingstraße 21 * 09119 Chemnitz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
