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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Too much swap???
Date: 13 Dec 1995 13:55:32 -0600
Organization: North Dakota State University
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If you choose a VERY SLOW drive to hold your part of swap backstore, you
could end up in worse situation than if you did not add that drive. I am
embarrassed to say that I did this on a desktop machine.

--mark.