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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers swap file space Post 36729 by Tux on Tuesday 3rd of June 2003 03:43:32 PM
Old 06-03-2003
ps. Buying more RAM is a more ideal solution as swapping to disk is hiddeously slow compared to RAM access.

But if you don't have the money right now, the extra swap space wil be a nice stop-gap solution.
 

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