[ale] how do I increase Linux swap file size?

[Michael Trausch]

Or processing huge huge amounts of data that can't be processed in streams,
though that is pretty rare.

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On Jan 18, 2011 12:06 PM, "Mike Harrison" <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Michael Trausch wrote:
>
>> Even using my desktop system for heavy tasks, I rarely dip into swap
usage.
>> I have 6 GB RAM, and unless I am being pretty wasteful everything fits in
>> that. Even multilayer GIMP images while compiling the kernel and GCC
seems
>> to not fill up memory (but I can say bye bye to I/O bandwidth...)
>
> At modern day ram prices, using SWAP is a sign of either not having enough

> ram, doing something stupid, or really bad programming.
> It's a wonderful safety net for reasons 2 and 3, sure beats a machine
> locking hard..
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