On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:49 pm, you wrote:
>
> There's a way to use windows swap as your linux swap??
> I have a 1 gig swap partition (yeah i know that huge, but i have the
> space and use graphics/music/video apps ;) ) I also have a seperate linux
> swap partition. Anyone have a link on how to do this. I have a seperate
> partition for photoshops swap, and am going to try to use this as swap
> for the gimp as well. It's fat32. Thanx
No no no! This is NUTS! I mean I've never tried it but it sounds crazy!
Linux wants to have a linux swap partition. If it becomes a fat32 partition
it will not use it... Just give off an error and say no swap. Now you don't
HAVE to have swap to run Linux. It's handy if you run out of RAM, which can
easily happen.
Windows would need to be hacked to write to anything else than it's "boot"
partition.
There's no way I can see it work properly. I'd laugh myself silly if someone
did managed to pull it off though! It's along the lines of putting a VW
engine in a old Chevy. Kind of a student type practical joke.
Figure about 2x the amount of RAM. If you swap a lot to disk you need to get
more RAM not more swap. Swap becomes inefficient after some 2.5 times your
RAM. It will do so much swapping the whole system will come down to a
crawl.
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