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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