On Monday 29 October 2007 03:53:26 jdd wrote: > Nate Pearlstein wrote: > > Read what Russel Cocker has to say at this link: > > > > http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/28/swap-space/ > > many lines of "this is not a good idea", but very little proof of > this > > I still don't see what is the problem. The disk space is cheap and if > the system don't need swap, it won't use it, so I see only a vaste of > disk space...
Overloading on swap is not a good idea. As someone has already mentioned, if you've got 4GB of physical RAM and still find you're swapping, then you should add more RAM. One real reason why a large swap file/partition is unhelpful: the kernel still has to maintain memory addresses, and if you have a whopping great big swap file/partition then you have a whopping great big page table that has to be constantly monitored by the kernel. A complete waste of system resources if you ask me... Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
