On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:08:37PM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>>
>> Well shoot, if you happen to have all of that space laying around, why not
>> just feed it to the VM system in the first place instead of having Linux
>> run around desperately for swap space when something shitlike hits the
>> fan? :)
>
>For one, you could do away with swap partitions if you did this. Kinda
>nice to lose those things.
Please, no. Last time I checked, swap partitions were significantly faster
than swap files. And if you have to grow the file things will get worse.
Dave
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