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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disabling swap & mounting /tmp on tmpfs = new standard?
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 00:15:24 +0100
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On Saturday 30 May 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> > I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since
> > the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move
> > for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a
> > bad idea?
>
> Instead of disabling swap, just make it small (like 32MB or something;
> whatever the smallest allowable partition size is). The kernel needs
> swap to operate optimally, even if it's extremely small. Just make sure
> it's there.
Hmm, on this old box I noticed swap was using more than 135,000K earlier to=
day=20
as I was emerging xulrunner and ImageMagick. I think that the size of swap=
=20
is relevant to the memory size that the box in question has. Not all=20
machines have found their way to 2G RAM yet ... ;)
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Regards,
Mick
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