Re: Swap vnode's [was overcommit thread]

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 13:07:34 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:11:49AM -0800, David Whysong wrote:
>
> 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.

They are much closer in performance these days. The swap file
handling has been improved substantially.

--Stephen

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