Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 03:30 schrieb Ron Johnson:
> I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century.
It is not.
If you mean that you should install enough RAM to avoid swapping, that's
ok.
But there are other reasons for a swap partition in the 21st century:
* There are some Un*x-like operating system which are able to save system
dumps on a swap partition for debuging after system crash. (At least if
you use a kernel which enabels debuging).
I don't know if Linux is such an operating system.
* If you like to use hibernate/suspend to disk, you can build a kernel
with something like
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="/dev/sdaX"
so that the kernel can save your RAM on /dev/sdaX before going to sleep.
Afterwards it can resume/boot up with the parameter resume=/dev/sda5 or
resume2=/dev/sda5 in your grub/lilo/.....-configuration very fast.
I think hibernate/suspend to disk does not work with a swap file.
Thomas
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