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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:25:14 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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:  <20020710202313.N12097-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3D2B6A45.86B061E7@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:

TL> > So, if someone wants to get really quick swap and allocates 4 partitions
TL> > on 4 drives *AND* also wand to get crashdumps, (s)he has to do this
TL> > suboptimally (either allocate 1st more sized than phys RAM and other much
TL> > smaller, or allocate approx 4 x phys RAM)?
TL> >
TL> > Then, the question: which technique is preferrable?
TL>
TL> You don't have to dump on your swap.  It's just convenient to do.
TL> You can actually dump on any raw partition which is large enough.
TL>
TL> If FreeBSD intrinsically handled "suspend to disk", then you would
TL> need something seperate from swap, anyway.

Yeah, this makes sense. Thank you for clarification. Hope StD feature will
appear soon in -current (at least one of my friends would be *extremely*
happy with this on his notebook).


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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