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SubjectRe: [RFC] VM: I have a dream...
On 1/22/06, Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, Mac OS X is one step closer to your vision than the typical
> > Linux distribution: It has a directory for swapfiles -- /var/vm -- and
> > it creates new swapfiles there as needed. (It used to be that each
> > swapfile would be 80MB, but the iMac next to me just has a single 64MB
> > swapfile, so maybe Mac OS 10.4 does something different now.)
> /var/vm/swap*
> 64M swapfile0
> 64M swapfile1
> 128M swapfile2
> 256M swapfile3
> 512M swapfile4
> 512M swapfile5
> 1.5G total
>

Linux also supports multiple swap files . But these are more
beneficial if there are more than one disk in the system so that i/o
can be done in parallel. These swap files may be activated at run time
based on some criteria.

Regards
Ram Gupta
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