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Grant Edwards wrote:
> One implication of that is that the filesystem is then not
> allowed to move blocks around if they are part of an "active"
> swap file? Not that I'm aware of filesystems that shuffle
> blocks around while they're part of an open
On 2009-01-24, Stroller wrote:
> > 3. Does creating the swapfile on a journaled filesystem (e.g.
> > ext3 or reiser) incur a significant performance hit?
>
> None at all. The kernel generates a map of swap offset -> disk
> blocks at swapon time and from then on uses that map to pe
On 24 Jan 2009, at 17:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
used for system and application files. It seems like the
filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck.
> 3. D
On 2009-01-24, ABCD wrote:
> There actually is a good reason (oddly enough) for Windows
> using a file on the filesystem for its swap space. Because it
> is a simple file on disk, if Windows realizes that the swap
> file is almost full, it can expand your swap without having to
> do things like
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Grant Edwards wrote:
> I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
> normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
> used for system and application files. It seems like the
> filesystem code would end up being a serio
On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file
>> on. I had a bunch of spare extended partitions but all the
>> docs say you can't put the XP swap file on en extended
>> paritition..
On Saturday 24 January 2009 15:35:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
> I didn't have a spare primary parition to put the swap file on. I had a
> bunch of spare extended partitions but all the docs say you can't put the
> XP swap file on en extended paritition...
Ah, I didn't know that. In Win98, I think it
On 2009-01-24, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup copies of the
>> NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in every backup copy starts to
>> eat up a lot of disk space.
>
> In the days wh
On 23 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.
It would take too long to zero it out - I don't think that's the
purpose.
...
After further googling, it appears it *does* fill the pagefile.sys
with zeros, and adds a significant delay
On Friday 23 January 2009 14:58:32 Grant Edwards wrote:
> Mainly because I use ntfsclone to keep a bunch of backup copies of the
> NTFS partition, and having a 2GB swap file in every backup copy starts to
> eat up a lot of disk space.
In the days when I ran Windows I used to have at least one pa
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> ...
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834
>>
>> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at
>> shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I
>> don't know.
>
> F
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834
>>
>> There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at
>> shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I
On 23 Jan 2009, at 17:09, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314834
There is a registry setting in Windows to "clear" the pagefile.sys at
shutdown. What does "clear" mean? To overwrite with 0? To delete? I
don't know.
From memory it's just to delete it, which is perfect.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stroller
wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use
a Linux swap partition for swap
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote:
>>> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use
a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it:
On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:58, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote:
On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use
a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it:
http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/
That
On 2009-01-23, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2009, at 05:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> ... I found a very slick solution that lets Windows XP use
>> a Linux swap partition for swap/paging/vm/whatever-MS-calls-it:
>>
>> http://db.bme.hu/~surprof/SwapFs-i/
>
> That looks a really cool & useful idea.
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