On Saturday 30 May 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Grant wrote: > > I recently disabled swap and mounted /tmp on tmpfs for a netbook since > > the SSD is so slow, and now I'm wondering if that would be a wise move > > for all of my Gentoo systems. In what type of situation would it be a > > bad idea? > > Instead of disabling swap, just make it small (like 32MB or something; > whatever the smallest allowable partition size is). The kernel needs > swap to operate optimally, even if it's extremely small. Just make sure > it's there.
Hmm, on this old box I noticed swap was using more than 135,000K earlier today as I was emerging xulrunner and ImageMagick. I think that the size of swap is relevant to the memory size that the box in question has. Not all machines have found their way to 2G RAM yet ... ;) -- Regards, Mick
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