From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 5 00:40:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD4916A405; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389E313C441; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:40:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l150NkqM093562 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:53:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:53:33 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <393982.95591.qm@web53614.mail.yahoo.com> <45C65E1F.2020109@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <45C65E1F.2020109@samsco.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3042139.onAsnrdtT4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702051053.43566.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.36 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Aloha Guy , questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:40:04 -0000 --nextPart3042139.onAsnrdtT4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 05 February 2007 08:58, Scott Long wrote: > Processors and memory have vastly outpaced the speed of disks; any > amount of swapping is going to be percieved as being very slow and > something that should be avoided. Since RAM is also very cheap now, > most people just load enough RAM into their system to handle their load, > and then configure enough swap to hold a crashdump of that RAM. You > always want swap so that you can handle unexpected spikes in load > without crashing, but it's less of an integral piece of normal system > operation these days. Mini-dumps have made it a lot easier to get away with a small amount of swa= p. That said it's not like disk is expensive either! =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3042139.onAsnrdtT4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFxnkP5ZPcIHs/zowRAi0FAKCK3pa4PyVrRveBzzjr80lzMCQT8ACbB/1V LquHG04FTBLspki+j7KThrA= =hOIr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3042139.onAsnrdtT4--