LOL On 11/7/06, Rob Terhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/7/06, Bill Marquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/7/06, Tommaso Di Donato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 11/6/06, Bill Marquette < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/5/06, Rob Terhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I store my swapfile on a ram drive! > > > > > > I certainly hope that's a joke, cause it's the daftest thing I've ever > > > heard otherwise!!! :) > > > > > > --Bill > > > > > > Mmmh, sorry for the stupid question... but why it is so nasty? I think it > > depends on what you do with your swap "file". I.E. I used a ramdisk for > > creatind squid temporary dirs, and it works faster.... Please, let me > > understand what I should expect from the future.... :-) > > Thank you sooo much > > Tom > > Let's see. The reason you are swapping is because you ran out of ram. > #1 most likely reason you ran out of ram...you made a large ramdisk > so you could put swap on it! It makes more sense to ADD ram to a box > than to figure out a way to make swap faster (especially when the end > result costs you RAM which you needed to eliminate the swap issue!) > Squid has nothing to do with the OS swap file btw - unrelated > question. Sure, using a ramdisk for the squid cache will be > faster...until you reboot and lose all the cache (and have to recreate > the cache dir), then your browsing is slow again until the cache is > built back up. I could see putting a squid cache (or swap) on Craigs > device though :) > > --Bill > > I know not everyone in the world understands jerky american sarcasm, so just to clear things up... i was joking. :D I don't think freebsd will even let you use a ramfs drive to store swap.
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