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Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition
Aloha Guy wrote:
Thanks for the input. You do have good points. The only issue with
swap partitions is that it seems like you need to increase it everytime
you increase the physical
Aloha Guy wrote:
Greetings everyone:
I am planning to build a few new boxes which will run -RELEASE and -CURRENT and
I have a question about the swap file. In the past, I had always used a swap
partition of 256MB since I originally had 128MB system memory in the 1990's but
my system has
that will really not
offer anything?
John
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Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 12:16:37 PM
Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition
Aloha Guy wrote:
Greetings everyone:
I
Aloha Guy wrote:
Thanks for the input. You do have good points. The only issue with
swap partitions is that it seems like you need to increase it everytime
you increase the physical memory. Is there a swap partition size limit
that pretty much will handle anything and setting a number
.
John
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To: Aloha Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 2:28:47 PM
Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition
Aloha Guy wrote:
Thanks for the input. You do have good points
On Monday 05 February 2007 08:58, Scott Long wrote:
Processors and memory have vastly outpaced the speed of disks; any
amount of swapping is going to be percieved as being very slow and
something that should be avoided. Since RAM is also very cheap now,
most people just load enough RAM into
On Sun, February 4, 2007 3:53 pm, Aloha Guy wrote:
Thanks for the input. You do have good points. The only issue with
swap partitions is that it seems like you need to increase it
everytime you increase the physical memory. Is there a swap partition
size limit that pretty much will handle
Please wrap your lines and don't top-post.
On Sun, 2007-Feb-04 15:24:39 -0800, Aloha Guy wrote: What I actually
meant was, I know in the old days, if you had 128MB, you want a 256MB
swap but with 2GB RAM, isn't 4GB going to be overkill for a swap or
are you saying that a 2GB swap will work? I'm
