Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:24:03 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> Cc: 'Adam Vande More' <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Jeff Whitman <JWhitman@jwnetsource.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap Space Message-ID: <20110105232403.000056a2@unknown> In-Reply-To: <19331_1294269649_4D24FCD1_19331_11348_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499A7AF90D4@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> References: <009b01cbad28$883d31c0$98b79540$@com> <AANLkTi=GUjG510LvuO==3aaPbFYt5FRf_QyVR8J8v2Tz@mail.gmail.com> <19331_1294269649_4D24FCD1_19331_11348_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499A7AF90D4@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com>
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 17:20:48 -0600 Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but if necessary one could add (and > activate) a secondary / additional swap file if necessary without > rebooting. So maybe start with a few gig and add an additional swap > file if necessary? Swapping to a file is really slow and should only be done if absolutely necessary since every read/write has to go through the filesystem code which it doesn't do if done via a swap slice. -- Bruce Cran
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