From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HRcUa-0001OW-QE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:02:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2EN0ksY010927; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:00:46 GMT Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2EN0imS010898 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:00:44 GMT Received: from hex.local.devrieze.net (ip5457f303.direct-adsl.nl [84.87.243.3]) by post.webmailer.de (mrclete mo50) (RZmta 5.1) with ESMTP id B01e19j2EHuWxr for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:43 +0100 (MET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram? Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <45F66A32.1050004@singnet.com.sg> <200703131439.08752.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <59541ff30703130728j763ceebeqb79ba12843f93a6b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <59541ff30703130728j763ceebeqb79ba12843f93a6b@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8840413.rYt5plYzLd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703150000.43577.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-RZG-AUTH: kl51CIkHMwISfnYDoiNJgMuHR/Blg5MDmwdH0Iw4F/MwB0A2QlGgJA== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo07 X-Archives-Salt: 35ec33a0-8d96-4d11-b897-2d87f4888669 X-Archives-Hash: 41d72c4565934c9b6a2715df6ead4434 --nextPart8840413.rYt5plYzLd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: > Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326 > > In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a > partition or a swapfile... Except that for a swap partition all parts of it are certainly contiguous.= =20 Something that does not generally hold for swap files. Being contiguous cou= ld=20 help the speed a bit. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart8840413.rYt5plYzLd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF+H6bbKx5DBjWFdsRAhKUAJ4+kCV3o5Kh8J6ffbkdm77rFWDRSQCdHHk6 TZ2fAIV+oRaHgFKAObH2C78= =X0kZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8840413.rYt5plYzLd-- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list