On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 02:41:19 -0400
Steve <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:28 am, you wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Maybe I got this wrong. Are you talking about swap for GIMP? Why have a
> special partition for that? What's the benefits? I've never looked into
> that for GIMP, but ext2/ext3 is very efficient with not letting files get
> defragged.
>
> --
>
> Steve
I have a seperate swap partition already for photoshop in windows. I figure Since I already have this partition, i might as well try it for the gimp. I haven't tried it yet though. So your saying that if my swap file is too big it will actually degrade performance? I'v never heard that. No i really don't swap that much, and have actually had an install that had no swap at all. Both seemed to run about the same. iirc i did run into a problem once or twice when I had no swap though, but on average it was like butter. I have 512MB of pc2700 ddr ram btw.
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