[clug] to swap or not to swap that is the question
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Wed Jun 30 21:30:14 GMT 2004
On 30 Jun 2004, at 19:35, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Yeah well this was what my question was about. I have a number of
> machines, servers that have no hard Disk at all. But one of them has
> been going unstable. It seems that it was running out of memory.
I have a router which had 64MB of RAM and no swap. One day I decided to
try to move more stuff onto that machine (DHCP, DNS), so now it has a
swap partition to hold the unused pages - about 2MB total. The swapfile
only exists because I can't find more memory for that ancient hardware
- it's a Pentium 133 with 8 x 8MB SIMMs.
Since I added the extra software, the machine takes twice as long to
start up and shut down - all for want of 2MB of RAM! Them's the breaks,
I guess.
Regards
Alex
If you use pirated software, you're supporting abusive monopolies.
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