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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:53:28 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        "millueradfa@yahoo.com" <millueradfa@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20080206205042.H4868@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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> My first is to allow for dynamically resizeable swap
> file of some sort, and via kqueue, a notification

especially with todays drives - it's waste of time to implement this.
nobody use swap FILES at all if swapping is needed unless he/she have no 
choice.

swapping partition always will be faster.

> believe this happened to when the swap partition and a
> swap file were on the same drive. Perhaps a way should
> be looked at to have multiple swap partititions and

why you simply won't make swap partition BIGGER on the first place.

swapping to files will be always much slower.



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