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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:39:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33CFF852-BD50-43C1-8F8C-C23489910881@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <glfiok$t30$1@ger.gmane.org>


On 24 Jan 2009, at 17:22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I still can't believe that Windows does it's swapping using a
> normal filesystem -- and by default it's the same filesystem
> used for system and application files.  It seems like the
> filesystem code would end up being a serious bottleneck.

    > 3. Does creating the swapfile on a journaled filesystem (e.g.
    > ext3 or reiser) incur a significant performance hit?

    None at all. The kernel generates a map of swap offset -> disk
    blocks at swapon time and from then on uses that map to perform
    swap I/O directly against the underlying disk queue, bypassing all
    caching, metadata and filesystem code.

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326

Stroller.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-24 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-23  5:16 [gentoo-user] Howto share Linux swap partition with Windows XP Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 12:44 ` Stroller
2009-01-23 14:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 16:08     ` Stroller
2009-01-23 17:02       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-23 17:09       ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-23 20:53         ` Stroller
2009-01-23 21:10           ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-24 14:20             ` Stroller
2009-01-23 21:11           ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 10:44     ` Peter Humphrey
2009-01-24 15:35       ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 15:52         ` Peter Humphrey
2009-01-24 17:22           ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 19:02             ` ABCD
2009-01-24 20:42               ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-24 21:39             ` Stroller [this message]
2009-01-24 23:04               ` Grant Edwards
2009-01-25  2:48                 ` ABCD

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