[Leaplist] Creation of Swap

[Steve Litt]

On Saturday 25 October 2008 02:14:32 pm Ram K. Singh wrote:
> When creating a partition, where do the professionals suggest we create
> Swap, in the begining middle or end of Linux partition?
>
> Ram

Another way of looking at the swap partition is as a fuse or idiot light -- if 
you swap often, you need more RAM.

I have a prime number generator 
(http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/codecorn/primenumbers/primenumbers.htm#_Implementation:_Scalability_Through_Paging) 
that does its thing in memory. When you choose such a big prime number range 
that it runs out of semiconductor RAM, it slows down maybe 100 fold or more.

So my thought is this -- it you swap often enough to worry about whether it's 
the beginning, middle or end of the drive, you need more RAM or to offload 
some of that computer's work.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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