> > Why did prep create a 512MB swap > > partition when I have 2GB RAM? > > good question, though on a positive note swap doesn't work anyway > (except on the 9front form) so I would delete it as if the machine > starts to swak it could wedge. > > this is not such a pain as it might appear, swapping makes performance > so miserable its not really worth having, especially given how cheap a > few GB of RAM is these days.
The swap is only enabled in /bin/termrc and it's not usual to have a swap partition on a terminal. The swap partition is 512 MB simply because it's the maximum size specified in /sys/src/cmd/disk/prep/prep.c -- David du Colombier
