[DGD] Sectors/Dump_state/SwapFile

[Chooser Fireman]

Is the use of a 1024 swapfile usual? I have set mine to 4096 for temp. sake.

Pardon if these questions seem ridiculous.

Thanks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erwin Harte" <harte at xs4all.nl>
To: <dgd at list.imaginary.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [DGD] Sectors/Dump_state/SwapFile


> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:13:25PM -0800, Chooser Fireman wrote:
> > Can anyone hand me a document or something on these things? I am a
> > bit new and don't understand fully what is going on with these ...
> >
> > I understand the concept of dump_state and the swapfile ... but when
> > i dump_state my sectors remain the same ... I thought dump_state
> > removed and reworked a new swapfile?
> 
> Yes, but since the #sectors-used indicates the number of sectors in
> the swapfile/-device in use, why would that suddenly change?  All that
> might have changed is that the not-yet-written-back data is sent to
> file and that as a result it gets a little bigger or smaller, but that
> won't be much.
> 
> The #sectors-used doesn't change if a copy of an object is swapped in
> from the swapfile to 'real' memory, if that's what you were thinking.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erwin.
> --
> Erwin Harte <harte at xs4all.nl>
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