[wellylug] Lightweight browsers, and window managers

[Sam Cannell]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 14:25, Nick Jensen wrote:
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/.swapfile bs=1048576 count=128
> >mkswap /usr/.swapfile
> >swapon /usr/.swapfile
> 
> Now that's a handy trick. Thanks very much - I'll try to repartition and get 
> some free space for swap - otherwise I'll try this.

I should have noted this in my previous email, but if at all possible,
it's definately better to use a dedicated swap partition - It's quite a
bit faster as you don't have to worry about a filesystem overhead on top
of the swapping time.

If you absoultely have to have a swap file, try to put it on a fast,
non-journalled filesystem like ext2 if you have one available to keep
the overhead as low as possible.
-- 
Sam Cannell <sam at plaz.net.nz>
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