On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:42 +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:38:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> > > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > > If you are using a
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:42 +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:38:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*.
> > > > "man mkswap"
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:38:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*.
> > > "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up.
> >
> >
> > Oh! I'd forgotten about
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap
*file*.
> > > "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up.
> >
> >
> > Oh! I'd forgotten about that. But I didn't know that was new with
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*.
> > "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up.
>
>
> Oh! I'd forgotten about that. But I didn't know that was new with 2.6. I
> could swear I've used a
Ron Johnson wrote:
> If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*.
> "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up.
Oh! I'd forgotten about that. But I didn't know that was new with 2.6. I
could swear I've used a swap file on 2.4. Maybe I'm imagining it, though.
cmr
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On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 14:13 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> I've recently doubled the memory in two of my systems. Each one
> previously had a swap partition configured that was, in accordance with
> a "rule of thumb" whose origins I've forgotten, exactly two times the
> size of the physical memory in
One system was swapping quite frequently when it was equipped with 1GB
of memory. I use it to run Azureus as well as a variety of first-person
shooters, so demands on memory are sometimes quite high. Unfortunately I
don't have any information on how much swap was typically used in the
previous conf
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:13:05PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> I've recently doubled the memory in two of my systems. Each one
> previously had a swap partition configured that was, in accordance with
> a "rule of thumb" whose origins I've forgotten, exactly two times the
> size of the physical mem
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:13, Chris Roddy wrote:
> Resizing the data partitions on these systems to make room for a larger
> swap space would present only a minor inconvenience, but is it even
> worth that effort? If there's no reason to prefer a 4GB swap partition
> over a 2GB partition for a sy
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