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. > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Mark Haney ::: Senior Systems Engineer *VIF* International Education P.O. Box 3566 ::: Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515 ::: USA 919-265-5006 office Global learning for all. www.vifprogram.com <http://www.vifprogram.com/?utm_source=signature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VIF> Find VIF on Facebook <http://facebook.com/VIFInternationalEducation> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/vifglobaled> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/vif-international-education> Recognized as a ‘Best for the World’ <http://bestfortheworld.bcorporation.net/> B Corp!
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