Silly crap, considering they should already have a working ZRAM setup with a higher priority. Once enabled you should never require old-school swapping.
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Originally posted by Shimon View PostSilly crap, considering they should already have a working ZRAM setup with a higher priority. Once enabled you should never require old-school swapping.
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Originally posted by eydee View PostAfter 20 years, catching up to NT 4.0. Better late than never.
Code:# apt show swapspace Package: swapspace Version: 1.10-4 Installed-Size: 143 kB Maintainer: Eugene V. Lyubimkin <[email protected]> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) Conflicts: swapd Homepage: http://pqxx.org/development/swapspace Tag: hardware::storage, implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, role::program, scope::utility, use::organizing Section: admin Priority: extra Download-Size: 29.5 kB APT-Manual-Installed: yes APT-Sources: http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages Description: dynamic swap space manager Small, stable system add-on that continuously and automatically adapts available virtual memory space to your actual memory needs. Claims disk space for use as swap space when needed; frees it up for use by the filesystem when not needed.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postchange swap partition to ext2 an make file on it
Using the builtin resume hook (which uses swap files) is much easier than having to bother with custom hooks.
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Originally posted by Inopia View Post
It's ridiculous that they still have not enabled zram by default. At least all you need to do is install zram-config and you get good defaults.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post... windows has other ways to mount drives too (i.e. Windows can also mount drives to folders like Linux). https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc938934.aspx- They are specific to NTFS. Compare Linux, where they are implemented at the VFS layer, so they are filesystem-independent.
- They can cause software incompatibilities. E.g. an application installer checks for space on the C: drive, and will fail if there isn’t enough there, even though it is actually going into a mount point underneath.
Thus, they are not often used, and very few Windows users actually know about them.
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Originally posted by eydee View PostAfter 20 years, catching up to NT 4.0. Better late than never.
All of this is a moot point nowadays, given how cheap RAM is, plus the emergence of SSD's. If your machine is doing any considerable amount of swapping in 2016, you incorrectly spec'd the hardware for your workload, so the answer is to add more RAM.
Ubuntu's decision is purely for convenience and config simplification, since the performance hit of a swap file is negligible nowadays.
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Originally posted by ldo17 View PostIn theory, yes. But in practice, Windows mount points don’t work very well.- They are specific to NTFS. Compare Linux, where they are implemented at the VFS layer, so they are filesystem-independent.
- They can cause software incompatibilities. E.g. an application installer checks for space on the C: drive, and will fail if there isn’t enough there, even though it is actually going into a mount point underneath.
Thus, they are not often used, and very few Windows users actually know about them.
Mounting folders around works fine for businness, and the points you raise are kinda irrelevant there.
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