From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQnm2-00082m-7r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE2E2E045F; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D52FE045F for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EB55648DE for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.521 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.521 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.078, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fQPVv14b0ocl for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02BA64914 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LQnlp-0004Qo-Gl for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:17 +0000 Received: from pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([173.71.204.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:17 +0000 Received: from en.ABCD by pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:02:17 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: ABCD Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:02:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200901241044.09521.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <200901241552.28443.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-71-204-106.clppva.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090106) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: cd15e73e-0a04-4750-ae0c-56b7114e19c3 X-Archives-Hash: f16cf77c21e69009750fe875ea95a4ef -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Edwards wrote: > I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a > normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem > used for system and application files. It seems like the > filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck. But I > long ago stopped trying to figure out why Windows does things... There actually is a good reason (oddly enough) for Windows using a file on the filesystem for its swap space. Because it is a simple file on disk, if Windows realizes that the swap file is almost full, it can expand your swap without having to do things like repartition. This makes the "swap is full - out of memory"-type problems less likely to occur (unless it is "filesystem is full" as well :) ). - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl7Za8ACgkQOypDUo0oQOp8egCgwWyB4db6ZYJ9YwgvG/dq70Rq 64cAn3laOOtlhh7zN7ni85WpBYZDyLz6 =T1za -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----