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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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