Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:14:15 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "millueradfa@yahoo.com" <millueradfa@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080207151415.06393db1@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20080206205042.H4868@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <50460.33951.qm@web34512.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080206205042.H4868@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:53:28 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >
> > My first is to allow for dynamically resizeable swap
> > file of some sort, and via kqueue, a notification
>
> especially with todays drives - it's waste of time to implement this.
> nobody use swap FILES at all if swapping is needed unless he/she have no
> choice.
>
> swapping partition always will be faster.
>
> > believe this happened to when the swap partition and a
> > swap file were on the same drive. Perhaps a way should
> > be looked at to have multiple swap partititions and
>
> why you simply won't make swap partition BIGGER on the first place.
>
> swapping to files will be always much slower.
Even if you HAD to use files, i can't imagine that writing a script that groks the output of the proper sysctl and creates a new swap file on demand would be that hard.
But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files?
B
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