Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?

["Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa" <joaquim.uchoa@gmail.com>]

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...

In this situation, a swap partition is only more easy to manage (You
don't need to
create the file after the instalation proccess) and can be shared by
several SOs in a
same computer. But swapfiles can be more flexible (you can expand and move more
easily).

I think I will prefer swapfiles in future instalations :)


2007/3/13, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>:
> On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote:
> > My 50 cents:
> >
> > A swap partition is always faster than a swap file. Not so much, but is
> > faster.
>
> nope. That was only true for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. One of the features of 2.6
> is that swapfiles are not slower anymore.
>
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