From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 9:25:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F349B37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABDF43E3B for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:25:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (marck@localhost) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6AGPEH15128; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:25:15 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:25:14 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Terry Lambert Cc: Erik Trulsson , Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems In-Reply-To: <3D2B6A45.86B061E7@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020710202313.N12097-100000@woozle.rinet.ru> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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