On Monday 28 October 2002 03:24 am, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > is there any sense in putting a swap partition on a P4 with 1GB RAM? > > What would be the advantage if using swapd? > > Or can I do without swap partitions at all? > > Thanks for any opinions, > > Lukas > PS: I have debian unstable running...
Swaps are good eevn if you have gobs of RAM, because sometimes programs have memory leaks. If you have a swap, this isn't a problem, because the leaked memory will eventually get pushed into swap, and it doesn't cause a performance penalty because it will never be brought back in from swap. To create a swap file (64MB in this example), instead of a partition, dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1M count=64 mkswap /swap edit /etc/fstab: /swap none swap sw 0 0 swapon -a cat /proc/swaps -jason pepas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
