Have not seen a method to dynamicly grow the file, but it certainly kills performance once you fill mem, swap and then go to disk file! When 8.2 comes out I will redo the disk layout to something a bit more suited to what I need when I upgrade. With win2000 prof, swap and reiserfs partitions on the same system, its rather difficult to just adjust things!
BillK On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 15:31, James wrote: > On 01 Mar 2002 09:42:48 +0800 > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have 256 ram and 512 swap - and regularly run out of space (single > > user processing largish files at times), resorting to additional swap > > Although I haven't done it, (393 megs ram 64 shared for video and about a > 2% average usage of the 256megs of swap available) You can set up a swap > file in linux. It works simular to the swap file in windows and just like > windows it's slower than a swap partition. It can however from what I'm > told grow dynamically with your system. This might do what you are > talking about. > > James >
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