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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:44:11 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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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...

regards,

Rik
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