1 Mar
2007
1 Mar
'07
4:16 p.m.
Mike McCarty spake the following on 2/28/2007 7:06 PM:
Mike McCarty wrote:
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I'm interested in the use of a file for swap, as I hear that there is now no speed penalty for that. I use ext3 for my partitions.
I'm still waiting for some commentary on use of a file for swap.
Mike
Might be a little slower with file system overhead, but it is not a problem to do so. Is there some reason you want to use a file? IMHO a 2 gig swap partition takes the same space as a 2 gig swap file.