Thanks for your explanations! I'll create a new partition for swap use. Can I then run diskdrake to tell my OS to use it, or do I have to manually enter it in /etc/fstab? Thanks, Alex
Le ven 12/12/2003 à 15:45, cdrack a écrit : > 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]> > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alexandre Aractingi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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