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Date:      Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:29:49 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20080207092921.P22656@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <47AAA5F0.4090803@highperformance.net>
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>> But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files?
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> One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap.  That way you 
> wouldn't need to use any disc space.  As a plus, the performance would be way 
> better than disc.
>
what a sense to allocate memory (as md is memory of disk backed) to swap.
simply use that memory



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