Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!yale!bunker!shap
From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /dev/swap - possibility of it being a ramdisk
Message-ID: <3119@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 13:39:54 GMT
References: <712@qetzal.UUCP>
Reply-To: shap@clunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
Organization: Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, Ct
Lines: 19
Keywords: /dev/swap

In article <712@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (Robert C. White) writes:
>Watching my poor little unix boxes swap, it occurred to me:
>why not utilize some extra ram to implement /dev/swap?

If you've got the extra memory, make it available as memory and prevent
the swapping in the first place.

If it's not enough memory to handle all of your memory needs, it will
also not be enough to handle all your swapping needs.

If you've got some archetecture in which you can add memory as disk
space but for some reason can't use it as real memory, then /dev/swap
might be a good choice, but this situation does not seem likely.  What
kind of system is it, anyway?
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