Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:54:03 -0800 (PST) From: "millueradfa@yahoo.com" <millueradfa@yahoo.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD Message-ID: <484700.62092.qm@web34508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080208153941.GB35348@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:09:13PM -0800, Jason C. > Wells wrote: > > > Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > > >Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb > Jason C. Wells: > > >>Norberto Meijome wrote: > > >>>But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want > to use swap files? > > >>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. > > > > > >Ahem, sorry, that's just plain stupid. Either the > md system is backed up > > >by RAM (in which case you don't need the swap > anyway; why'd you want to > > >access RAM by putting it in a swap on an md in > RAM?), or it's backed up by > > >swap, in which case you have a chicken and egg > problem. > > > > Mmm, yes. That is quite a pickle. But a chicken > or an egg would still > > be inferior to an md backed swap. :) > > Huh? > md backed swap is just using memory which, if you > hadn't wasted it > by making it md, it might obviate the need for swap > at all - anyway > it would not be a faster system if the md had to be > swapped out. It > just adds another layer of interferrence. > > ////jerry > > > > > Regards, > > Jason > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Well, actually, these are file backed swap devices. You can do both file and memory backed devices. this allows you to have a swap file on the hard disk and mount it. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
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