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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>
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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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