[plug] Bad blocks in Swap

[Brad Campbell]

Garth Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Hi Brad
> 
> I think the bad blocks are still there in your swap.
> 
> Garth

Yes, they are still there, but by doing a mkswap -c, it marks the
bad blocks as unusable and therefore does not access them.
Since I have done this, I have no hda errors in my log, therefore I 
assume the kernel is not trying to access the faulty disk areas..
What I did not do, was restart squid. When I did a swapoff -a
it flushed the swapfile back into ram. Ahh bugger it, my rambling
is becoming increasingly incoherent. 
Anyway, on this machine, with it's usage profile, squid is the task
MOST likely to get swapped out. Time will tell I guess..

Of course I do have 96 megs of Ram, I guess I could leave the swap
turned off for a couple of weeks..

I'll let it run as is for the moment and see what happens.
I have 192 days uptime at the moment, so I'm a little reluctant to
play with it too much, squid is the only thing that causes any trouble..


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