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Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net> posted |
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453AE4DE.4090708@××××××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 |
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23:26:22 -0400: |
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> Not sure what the fancy scripts that are being discussed do, but this is |
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> plenty good for me, and I'm sure Duncan could get this running in about |
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> 15 seconds... |
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Well, there's could, and there's groking what it's actually doing, in case |
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there's a problem and to ensure it's actually encrypting it. (I |
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/seriously/ hope that mention of uuencode doesn't mean they're using /it/ |
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to "encrypt", for instance. A quick look say they aren't, but that |
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doesn't tell me what's actually going on yet, either.) If I'm going to be |
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running encrypted swap, I'm going to need to know all about what I'm using |
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to encrypt it (losetup here, it seems), and how that plays with my |
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four-way striped swap (a four gig partition on each of my four SATA |
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drives, all set pri=1 so the kernel stripes it for performance), among |
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other things. If I can't rest assured it's working well, why bother? |
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Actually, what I could do now that I have 8 gig of RAM is turn off |
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swap again, wipe the partitions, and simply leave swap off. Only if they |
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ever get suspend to disk working semi-reliably... and I do have /tmp |
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(which is my $PORTAGE_TMPDIR as well) mounted as a tmpfs, and could |
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theoretically go into swap with multiple parallel merges tho I have it set |
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to 5 gig max, which would still give me 3 gig of memory to work at a maxed |
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/tmp, even with 0 swap. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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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 |
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