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Re: New HD advice



Mike wrote:

Although you can create swap space as a file, instead of the kernel handling a raw partition to swap, all swapping must go through the file system, which slows swapping considerably.




Not so in 2.6.


What do you mean by that? I will give you that the VMM is much better in 2.6. But what's "Not so in 2.6?"


That swapping to partition is better than swapping to file.


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