Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:19:30 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: using only swap file without swap partition: OK? Message-ID: <200411072219.30919.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <418DFD15.2010409@yahoo.com> References: <418DFD15.2010409@yahoo.com>
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--nextPart13749054.JJlMn8Tt8F Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 21:16, Rob wrote: > With 5.3 it has become much easier to add swap as a regular file, > remove it later, or add a bigger or smaller one instead. > > The swap partition always causes me little headache: once the > size is choosen at partitioning during install, it's fixed. > I can't size it up or down anymore, unless I go fiddling with > the partition table, which I desperately like to avoid. > > So, why not using swapfile without swap partition at all. > Have it on a big partition with lots of space. If there's a > problem with the space, I can easily move the swap elsewhere. > A swapfile is so much more flexible. > > Is there a downside of not using swap partition, and have only > swapfile instead? You can't save crash dumps, and it is less efficient. In general you don't need much swap if you have a reasonable amount of RAM,= so=20 it's not usually necessary to resize your swap when you get more RAM (unles= s=20 you want to save crashdumps..) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart13749054.JJlMn8Tt8F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBjgvK5ZPcIHs/zowRAks1AJ9U0WoPgurIvtoXf10kqMpaWrNvtwCghRrj lC145tMQp4M5/H97zkz0ALc= =mc5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13749054.JJlMn8Tt8F--
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