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On 5/1/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey posted <200605011141.50417.prh@××××××××××.uk>, excerpted |
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> below, on Mon, 01 May 2006 11:41:50 +0100: |
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> > On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:51, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> >> 2) When I built the machine I had 512MB in the machine so a 1GB swap |
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> >> seemed fine. I have since updated to 1GB so the swap seemed a bit small |
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> >> anyway. |
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> > I've read somewhere that more than 1 GB swap would be wasted. |
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> I believe that's no longer correct -- under certain circumstances, anyway. |
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<SNIP> |
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> All that said, as I've mentioned a couple times now, on a single disk |
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> system, there's a /huge/ cost in terms of access speed, to access swap. |
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I'm sure this is true.... |
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<SNIP> |
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> OTOH, with the size of today's drives, often a hundred gigabyte or more |
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> need not even be partitioned, let alone ever used, and if that's the case, |
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> throwing a few gigs at a swap partition, just so the system and system |
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> operator have the flexibility to use it if it's ever needed, certainly |
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> doesn't hurt. With a dual boot system and a drive < a couple hundred gig, |
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> it's possible there's not the room to spare I was talking above, but |
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> something reasonable, 2-4 gig, might still be possible, if one wants it. |
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This was what happened on my system. I wasn't totally sure when I got |
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the AMD64 machine that I would end up running 64-bit, so I built |
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64-bit on a smaller hard drive footprint. I used only about 50GB of |
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the 250GB drive. 64-bit ended up working rather well, for most things, |
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so I forgot I had this extra disk space until I got into this Windows |
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install. I hope I never use swap. This is just a desktop machine most |
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of the time with som good audio hardware for when I want to write |
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music and record with Ardour. It's my goal the almost never swap out, |
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but if I do I decided it wouldn't hurt to use up 1GB more of disk |
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space. |
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Now, once again, thanks to everyone who helped me get the boot |
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partition moved so I could install Win XP. I am able now to dual boot |
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XP and AMD64 Gentoo so that's cool. Unfortunately the 1GB I had at the |
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front of the drive turned out to not be enough to actually run XP. I |
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did get it installed but I don't have enough disk space to do all the |
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updates to Windows so it looks like I have to go back to the drawing |
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board on this one. The next step appears to be to move my / partition |
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further back on the drive to make more room available for Windows at |
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the front of the drive. |
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Is there no better way with this stupid M$ operating system? |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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