Re: [PLUG] Pros and cons of swap in a partition vs. in a file in the file system

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 01:20:28AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> The hit at this point is (almost) a pointer dereference per abstraction
> layer, so very minimal.  That being said, Walt's point about scattering
> of a file over the disk vs. ordered layout for a partition is accurate -
> you can't do all that much to optimize scattered data.

And Matthew's point is also accurate -- once you start swapping,
things are generally so much slower than normal that you're not likely
to notice much difference between swap files and swap partitions.

Walt

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