Help, my swap is broken! Solved!

[Knapp]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009, Arnaud bourree wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>Can somebody explain interest to have more than one swap partition?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Arnaud.
>
> Chuckle, why do you ask?
>
> FWIW, in shuffling drives around for the last install, I wound up with 2
> drives each having a 4GB swap.  No problems, they both work.  I thought about
> disabling one of them, but its the shoemakers kids story, never got around to
> doing it.  So I have 2 swaps totaling 8GB on a machine with 4GB of ram.
> Shrug.  It has never actually used more than 100 megs.
>
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Speed.

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Douglas E Knapp

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