[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > 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
Burn a dvd. Or any other job that pushes a few gig around the fs. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]