On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I > set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap > partition would be used first -- Somehow, I don't think this matters > since they are both on the same drive...
I think it actually does make a (small) difference. I believe there's more overhead when using a swap file that exists within the filesystem. I don't know if this is true or not, as I head this in late kernel 2.0 days. Because the swapfile was in the filesystem, it got treated like a file, and was subject to whatever buffering and other treatment given to a file. Swap partitions are treated a bit different. Searching through some of the kernel code could provide you with some info. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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