On Monday 08 December 2008 06:45 pm, Peter Manis wrote: > Forgot about swap. I would maybe avoid using a file swap all > together and use tmpfs or a standard ramdisk for your swap. I have > heard that turning off swap all together isn't the best solution so > using a tmpfs or ramdisk basically eliminates on disk swap files, but > still makes the system believe it is there. This is because > applications will still prefer to swap vs freeing system cache. So I > would buy more ram and go that route, unless you already have enough > ram.
Two gig of RAM, two 1G sticks. MB has only two slots so if I want to go to 4G I'd have to buy all new RAM, not that expensive, but I don't like wasting perfectly good RAM <smile>. So what's wrong with a swap file on the encrypted partition? The speed? Or a separate encrypted swap file (can I do that with what you call the ubuntu method? Thanks. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
