Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 31st Aug 2008 16:15 UTC, submitted by cy
Thanks to Google Summer of Code student Zhao Shuai, Haiku now has support for a swap file. "As of revision 27233 it is enabled by default, using a swap file twice the size of the accessible RAM. The swap file size can be changed (or swap support disabled) via the VirtualMemory preferences. Swap support finally allows building Haiku in Haiku on a box with less than about 800 MB RAM, as long as as the swap file is large enough. [Ingo Weinhold] tested this on a Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz with 256 MB RAM (artificially limited) and a 1.5 GB swap file. Building a standard Haiku image with two jam jobs (jam -j2) took about 34 minutes. This isn't particularly fast, but Haiku is not well optimized yet." The swap implementation borrows heavily from that of FreeBSD.
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2006-10-01
That's always been my thoughts on the subject. I have 2 gigs of ram and my linux install has a 4 gig swap partition on a 500 gig disk drive. If I ever start pining for those 4 gigs It would probably be time to upgrade to a 20 terabyte disk drive. I still wish more Linux installers would have a 'use swap file' option instead, make things more dynamic.
Edited 2008-09-01 01:17 UTC