On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:04:19PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > That is not _filesystem_ corruption. And it is not worse than just > cutting the power, so "disk containing swap dies" is no worse than any > other crash.
I still prefer not having any crash at all when I already have the hardware needed to avoid it. > Linux pushes out inactive pages to swap so it can cache more active > pages in RAM. As long as the size of your working set (data you either > read or write) exceeds the size of RAM, getting rid of unneeded pages > and using the memory for caching is a win. Sure, although I almost never see it happen on my machines. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
