Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:57:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <3D2B6A45.86B061E7@mindspring.com> References: <20020709161044.C77578-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > So, if someone wants to get really quick swap and allocates 4 partitions > on 4 drives *AND* also wand to get crashdumps, (s)he has to do this > suboptimally (either allocate 1st more sized than phys RAM and other much > smaller, or allocate approx 4 x phys RAM)? > > The, the question: which technique is preferrable? You don't have to dump on your swap. It's just convenient to do. You can actually dump on any raw partition which is large enough. If FreeBSD intrinsically handled "suspend to disk", then you would need something seperate from swap, anyway. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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