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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:53:33 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Aloha Guy <alohaguy123@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: swap file vs swap partition
Message-ID:  <200702051053.43566.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <45C65E1F.2020109@samsco.org>
References:  <393982.95591.qm@web53614.mail.yahoo.com> <45C65E1F.2020109@samsco.org>

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On Monday 05 February 2007 08:58, Scott Long wrote:
> Processors and memory have vastly outpaced the speed of disks; any
> amount of swapping is going to be percieved as being very slow and
> something that should be avoided.  Since RAM is also very cheap now,
> most people just load enough RAM into their system to handle their load,
> and then configure enough swap to hold a crashdump of that RAM.  You
> always want swap so that you can handle unexpected spikes in load
> without crashing, but it's less of an integral piece of normal system
> operation these days.

Mini-dumps have made it a lot easier to get away with a small amount of swa=
p.
That said it's not like disk is expensive either!

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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