Mike McCarty spake the following on 3/1/2007 8:43 AM: > Scott Silva wrote: >> >> Might be a little slower with file system overhead, but it is not a >> problem to >> do so. > > I have heard that, with ext3, the extra time to use a file > has mostly been removed. > >> 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. > > Yes, I'd like to experiment with various amounts of swap, > and see what best fits my system. I don't want to repartition > over and over, and reinstall repeatedly. ISTM that if I can > fix the size of swap by using a file it would be more easily > tuned. > > But I hope the tuning isn't markedly different for using > a swap partition and a swap file. Near a min or max, any > smoothly changing function has a derivative near zero, > so if the sweet point isn't very far away, it shouldn't > make much difference to actual performance. > > Mike The best swap is un-needed swap. If you need to play with swap for performance reasons, just get some more memory. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!