I think that's almost everyone's biggest beef with Windows.  The pagefile
is the bane of every admin's existence.


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 06:54 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Some years ago Fedora promoted btrfs as the next great FS, to replace
> > all others.  I never saw this problem mentioned - somewhere there
> > should be a warning that if you choose btrfs for all your large FS you
> > might want a larger partition set aside for swap.
>
> I've always thought that having a separate swap partition was the best
> approach, rather than a swap file inside /.  The usage of swap versus
> normal file storage is different, and it makes sense to use something
> optimised for it.  And it strikes me that doing one thing inside another
> inside another (e.g. delving into large files as swap), is inefficient,
> too.
>
>
> --
> tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
>
> Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686
>
> All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
> to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public
> lists.
>
> George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
> a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
>
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