In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Molton writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've tweaked rc.sysinit to contain `swapon /tmp/swap' right at the top
>
>Is there any reason that *all* linuxes couldnt do this?
>
>it seems (from my limited standpoint) that it'd be a good thing for any
>low-memory system....
No, but it wouldn't usually be especially useful. Most systems have enough
RAM to run most of the way through startup without any swap and people don't
want to have to create a swap file just for booting. It's only machines like
the A5000 which have ludicrously little memory in absurdly large pages that
need this kind of thing.
If you apply the -philb kernel patch you can say `swap=/dev/..' on the kernel
command line. I'm not sure if swap files will work that way.
p.
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