On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:09:13PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > >Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: > >>Norberto Meijome wrote: > >>>But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? > >>One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That way > >>you wouldn't need to use any disc space. As a plus, the performance > >>would be way better than disc. > > > >Ahem, sorry, that's just plain stupid. Either the md system is backed up > >by RAM (in which case you don't need the swap anyway; why'd you want to > >access RAM by putting it in a swap on an md in RAM?), or it's backed up by > >swap, in which case you have a chicken and egg problem. > > Mmm, yes. That is quite a pickle. But a chicken or an egg would still > be inferior to an md backed swap. :)
Huh? md backed swap is just using memory which, if you hadn't wasted it by making it md, it might obviate the need for swap at all - anyway it would not be a faster system if the md had to be swapped out. It just adds another layer of interferrence. ////jerry > > Regards, > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
