Porteus

Hi!

I want to "extend" the RAM's amount for my system through a swapfile, and I have some questions about the right configuration.

I'm working with Porteus 2.1 32bit installed at an external HDD. The primary partition is ext4, with 150 GB of space. At a extended partition I have a 32GB ext4 space for swapfile; another ext4 partition for documents and a fat32 partition for MS Windows.

My questions:

• 1.- Will the swapfile work on the extended partition?
  2.- I want that Porteus use as much as possible of the 32 GB reserved on the partition for swap. Do I have to "activate" the swapfile through a cheatcode or a script file?

Thnaks in advance for your help.

yes - it will work with extended partition. to create swapfile run following command: and activate it through rc.local: run 'free -m' to confirm swap space increased.

since swapfile has fixed size than maybe would be better to convert whole partition into swap? Porteus will find and use it automatically.

Thx Phantom!

About the swap partition: I have a swap partition inside the extended partition , but do I have to "activate" it through rc.local?

Thx again for your help.

If you are using a swap partition then linuxrc will find it and take care of adding it to fstab during boot.

I want to "extend" the RAM's amount for my system through a swapfile

I imagine you have already done the research but if not, you should ask yourself why you really need the swap partition. In many cases (on systems with plenty of resources) it will not be of much benefit. read/writes from physical memory are measured in nanoseconds while the same from disk are some tens of thousands longer.

@Brokenman:

Thx for your response.

Yes, I've made my homework about swap partition and swapfile. The fact is that I've worked on PC with very limited RAM and I'm trying to prepare my system to handle this kind of situations for the future.

I prefer sacrifice some processing speed and obtain the enough memory to complete complex jobs.

Is it valid include the following lines on rc.local file?
sdbx is an already existing swap partition.

Regards.

You can just include the swapon line.