On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:06 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:

Xavier Bestel wrote:

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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:55 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
  

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If the swap device is full, then there is no need for random
seeks as the swap pages can be read in disk order.
    

If the swap file is full, you probably have a machine dead into a swap
storm.

Only if you have enough swap. :-)

Yeah, sure. But these days disk space is cheap and I tend to put too big
swap partitions, and I always regret it later ...

	Xav


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