From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703150000.43577.pauldv@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59541ff30703130728j763ceebeqb79ba12843f93a6b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote:
> Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326
>
> In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a
> partition or a swapfile...
Except that for a swap partition all parts of it are certainly contiguous.
Something that does not generally hold for swap files. Being contiguous could
help the speed a bit.
Paul
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-14 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-13 9:09 [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram? P.V.Anthony
2007-03-13 9:56 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 12:46 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2007-03-13 13:39 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 14:28 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2007-03-13 14:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 23:00 ` Paul de Vrieze [this message]
2007-03-13 14:11 ` dustin
2007-03-13 14:32 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 20:24 ` Richard Freeman
2007-03-14 14:19 ` Jack Lloyd
2007-03-14 17:01 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 17:26 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-03-14 19:03 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 21:21 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-03-15 10:00 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-03-13 14:30 ` Duncan
2007-03-18 3:42 ` P.V.Anthony
2007-03-13 18:04 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Peter Humphrey
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