From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 8 16:54:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A45F816A419 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:54:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millueradfa@yahoo.com) Received: from web34508.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34508.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6934B13C467 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:54:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millueradfa@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 62647 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Feb 2008 16:54:03 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=rQ9Pj0vZavtB44cP/pQQRkxwhkzEf2SZxMcBK8uleawaWJ4tdu9/JJqU9F35oQLdXnYD9cvp8BeVoP1+l9KmVk/q0G5hPKam9qP1UvB099xTRB8gp3Znl2IHP8cJx6uEsb9p/wnNSqnqBLPhMwFIsOGnl9aD45vOKI9jY+QBorI=; X-YMail-OSG: ZD7Gg54VM1mzRaBMQ5AF2E8RkiITJ3XynK722H.QPcVQ9XrAGGdrC4UFpSGx8eYPDGGtn3DCJwx_M9PGEPj2q4t3l7Vh36Yb32stouCZp3BhWd6o5G4- Received: from [72.187.244.205] by web34508.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:54:03 PST Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:54:03 -0800 (PST) From: "millueradfa@yahoo.com" To: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20080208153941.GB35348@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <484700.62092.qm@web34508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:54:04 -0000 --- Jerry McAllister 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