I can't comment on encrypted swap as I have never tried it, it would have to be a trial and error type thing
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Jeff Lasman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
