Subject: Re: Where do you put your swap partition?
On 2008-01-23T15:17:29-0500, Mike Kuhar wrote: > Most things stated in this chain are true. But a couple notes. First, a > swap partition is not the same as a normal partition, i.e. ext2 or ext2. > That is, in Window's speak, it's not formatted. Process chunks that are > swapped in and out of swap does not go through the filesystem manager. The > kernel directly manages that space. It treats that disk space as a raw > disk. Much faster than going through the read/writes to a normal file. You > can create a swap file, but that's much slower than swap space, because it > has to go through the file system. These two threads do not suggest there is any significant performance difference between swap file and swap partitions: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/6/28/427 http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/browse_thread/thread/c7d44b3d414f7da2 ---------------------------------- If that's meaningful for you, than by all means use a swap file. But going through the filesystem is never the fastest way to disk. If that were the case, then Oracle would never offer the ability to use a disk in raw mode for speed. You don't have to configure this way, but it is offered for speed. But then again, a home user never taxes a system like a business system. If you are more comfortable using a swap file, then use it. -mike /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
