swap space

Shane McKinley mckinleysh at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 13:25:45 UTC 2007


Ekk, I didn't know people still used that. Always seemed flaky to me.

-Shane
hackosis.com

On Dec 19, 2007 11:32 AM, Guillaume <silencer at free-4ever.net> wrote:

> Shane McKinley a écrit :
> > I am no expert on swap, but since it is just for temporary storage (like
> > RAMDISK) and there should be no problem with this concept.
> >
> I'm not sure...
>
> If you use suspend to disk on one of the linux, when you suspend, it
> will write all the RAM to the swap for the next boot...
>
> And if you start another linux on your computer.... it may clean up the
> swap.... so you will lose all information.... or if this linux also have
> suspend to disk, it may start this suspend to disk image with other
> software, etc...
>
> So maybe, it can cause some problems.... in particular case....
>
> But it will certainly work perfectly if you don't use suspend to disk...
>
> Regards
> Guillaume
>
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