Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:44:11 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit |
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, LA Walsh wrote:
> An interesting option (though with less-than-stellar performance > characteristics) would be a dynamically expanding swapfile. If you're > going to be hit with swap penalties, it may be useful to not have to > pre-reserve something you only hit once in a great while.
This makes amazingly little sense since you'd still need to pre-reserve the disk space the swapfile grows into.
A dynamically growing swap file can only save you if you reserve enough free space on your filesystem for the thing to grow...
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