On Monday, February 09, 2015 02:13:33 PM Paul E Condon wrote: [...] > You could use a file in your first partition for swap instead of a > separate partion (that is badly configured) for swap. Having swap on > its own partition seems to have lost some of its technical advantage > due to changes in how modern drives are designed, or so I have heard > somewhere. (Hoping to generate some informed responses...) > I have read that recently, but have never tried it. So this is not an informed response. ;-)
But it has been mentioned enough times recently that it might be an alternative for someone trying to live in only1 or 2 gigs of ram. Thanks Paul. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502091538.25678.ghesk...@wdtv.com
