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Re: Why not swap to files?



Robert de Forest writes:
> This is obviously more flexible, and since it's the same drive either
> way, the only possible performance hit would be if the kernel made a
> distinction.

Well, there's no performance hit at all if you never use the swap.
However, when I switched from a swap partition to a swap file on my old
machine, performance degraded substantially (running X in 8M, swap gets
used).

John Hasler
jghasler@win.bright.net (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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