John R Pierce wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > >> I don't know what advantage swap partitions have over swap files. >> >> Swap files can be created and added as any time. > > > > they are always contiguous, and have no overhead in inode and cluster > mapping. Contiguous is irrelevant; unless one has disk dedicated to swap, the partition's never close to anything important. Is the rest something that matters for 2.6 kernels? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory [edit] Swapping in the Linux and BSD operating systems > > that said, the actual swap usage on a non-overloaded system -should- be > close to zero. Indeed. And if it's high, a good way to reduce it is to add RAM. It escapes me though, why I should add swap too. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list