as you should now, the swap partition acts like an
extra ram storage... When you run applications, they
alocates them code into the ram memori, but if you
have varius applications running at the same time.
(usualy... like network handler, video
handler,database servers, and so) Each one of them
will claim some memory space to work on. and if you
don't have enough to bring them, the system will slow
down and maybe hang.
Because not all the programs work at the same time,
there are memory alocated that is not nesesary to keep
with the actual information and may be used by active
applications, so here becomes important the swap
space. At this point the SO takes the memory from the
inactive applications and places it's information on
the swap partition, feeing memory to use by active
applications. When the unactive applications become
active then the SO find's the new inactive aplications
and does the hole thing again.
The SO can use a non swap partition for this job, but
the performance will not be the same, because the swap
partition have's a diferent file sistem and method to
access to the information.
So if you are able to reinstall or install a extra
disk to use it for swap job... go on.
Cdrack.
--- Alexandre Aractingi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> As I installed mdk 9.2 on a brand new desktop, I
> totally forgot to make
> a swap partition. The installer didn't complain and
> everything looks
> fine now, but I'm still wondering if it might be an
> annoyance for later?
> (The machine has 512 Mo of RAM)
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alexandre Aractingi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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