On Monday 29 October 2007 03:53:26 jdd wrote:
Nate Pearlstein wrote:
Read what Russel Cocker has to say at this link:
many lines of "this is not a good idea", but very little proof of this
I still don't see what is the problem. The disk space is cheap and if the system don't need swap, it won't use it, so I see only a vaste of disk space...
Overloading on swap is not a good idea. As someone has already mentioned, if you've got 4GB of physical RAM and still find you're swapping, then you should add more RAM. One real reason why a large swap file/partition is unhelpful: the kernel still has to maintain memory addresses, and if you have a whopping great big swap file/partition then you have a whopping great big page table that has to be constantly monitored by the kernel. A complete waste of system resources if you ask me... Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org