swap

[Benjamin Scott]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, at 6:15pm, jonathan at linowes.com wrote:
> Does the swap area have to be a partition or can it be a file? 
> if it can, are there any disadvantage to doing this?

  It used to be that putting swap in a file was slower then putting it in a
partition.

  I don't know if this is still the case.  I also don't know if "slower"  
was "significantly slower" (especially given that swap is already orders of
magnitude slower then RAM).

  I usually use a dedicated swap partition, but only because I usually know
what I want for swap going in to a build.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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