Mike McCarty spake the following on 2/28/2007 7:06 PM: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > >> 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.