What are everyones opinions on the the swap issue? like If i have a 1GB swap partiion does it get fragmented? How does this get affected by the new VM in 2.4 kernels?
Does a larger swap file require more management and thus slows down a system if it is bigger than necessary? JG William Kenworthy wrote: > 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! > > > >>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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