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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: next disks and swapfiles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.200031.8999@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Aug25.104913.52658@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:00:31 GMT
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- Yes BuildDisk makes a contigious swap file. Next even goes
- to the effort to put the swapfile near the shared libraries
- to minimize head movement.
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- However, when the swap file grows beyond the lowwater mark,
- it will be allocated as needed from wherever there is space
- on the disk. This can be a real pain.
- Thus ideally you would create a swap file of the max size
- you ever intend to use right at the beginning when you
- built the disk.
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- If you make the mistake of deleting the swap file, then
- when it's recreated, it may not be in the same place. This
- can make a significant difference to the performance.
-