On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:17:47AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:37:41PM -0800, Freeman wrote: > > > Writes to a swap file on your drive. Or a swap file on your ram drive > > in memory if you have one. :) > > There are probably some edge cases where a swap file on a RAM drive is > valid, but I can't think of any that don't involve misbehaving apps that > want to manage their own swapping rather than letting the kernel do it. > > The whole point of swap is to trade disk I/O for RAM, so swapping to RAM > disk seems rather self-defeating. What's your use case for this? >
A misbegotten attempt at humor! However, I did see a case once. Maybe not sure how meritable it is. The OP conjectured that less available memory would cause etch (or maybe apps) to manage memory more aggressively. -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
