How to disable a Ram Swap permanently

Josef Wolf jw at raven.inka.de
Fri Apr 2 19:17:12 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 08:01:54AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 05:42 AM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0000, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:21 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> > On 03/10/2010 04:36 AM, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> >> > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man2/swapon.2.html
> >> >
> >> > Hakan had suggested:
> >> > To increase the prioirity, change the last column of your /etc/fstab
> >> > swap definitions.
> >> > Rashkae pointed out that is wrong. To do so would be changing the
> >> > fs_passno value.
> >> Let's just read the man page and move on. Teaches me a lesson: never
> >> give an advice before drinking the first cup of coffee of the day...
> >> :)
> > 
> > What reasons can there be to swap to RAM?
> 
> Perhaps this will help:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

Tanks for the pointer NoOp. I know what swap is good for. What I fail to see
is the point of swapping to _RAM_.




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