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On Saturday 30 May 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Grant wrote: |
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> > I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since |
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> > the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move |
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> > for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a |
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> > bad idea? |
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> Instead of disabling swap, just make it small (like 32MB or something; |
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> whatever the smallest allowable partition size is). The kernel needs |
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> swap to operate optimally, even if it's extremely small. Just make sure |
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> it's there. |
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Hmm, on this old box I noticed swap was using more than 135,000K earlier today |
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as I was emerging xulrunner and ImageMagick. I think that the size of swap |
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is relevant to the memory size that the box in question has. Not all |
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machines have found their way to 2G RAM yet ... ;) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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