swap

[Jerry Feldman]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:57:57 -0500
"Jonathan Linowes" <jonathan at linowes.com> wrote:

> got it, thanks
> my system was thrashing really badly
You can add swap areas on the fly. You can have multiple swaps at any
one time. 
Using a file as a swap will affect performance, but if your system is
thrashing badly, then you have insufficient memory.


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