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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 11:53:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jnrvrl$57h$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)

I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use
swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and
substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe.

Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe
depending on which filesystem you use, or something?  Security holes?
Any horror stories out there?




             reply	other threads:[~2012-05-02 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02 18:53 walt [this message]
2012-05-02 20:31 ` [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles? Paul Hartman
2012-05-02 20:33   ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-02 20:58 ` Simon
2012-05-02 21:50   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-02 22:02     ` Paul Hartman

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