--- Gordon Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, swap is huge (300 MB). But it never gets used
> unless you do a yum
> upgrade (which needs 200 MB!). Noone has tried this
> yet, but I can
> monitor that by creating the swap with sparse blocks
> and using du.
Sparse swap files are the recipe for disaster and
heartbreak. Don't use sparse files for swap. The
last time that I tried to use them was in 2.6.9.
Doing a Yum upgrade of a 2.6.9 guest with 64MB of
memory and a 256MB sparse swap file would always cause
a crash. Sometimes of the host as well.
Hope this helps.
-Steve Johnson
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