Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:05:41 -0600 | From | Ram Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... |
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On 1/22/06, Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> wrote: > > > FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical > > Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and > > it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each > > swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB > > swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.) > /var/vm/swap* > 64M swapfile0 > 64M swapfile1 > 128M swapfile2 > 256M swapfile3 > 512M swapfile4 > 512M swapfile5 > 1.5G total >
Linux also supports multiple swap files . But these are more beneficial if there are more than one disk in the system so that i/o can be done in parallel. These swap files may be activated at run time based on some criteria.
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