From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:31:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2OSiG0pXr+5QHe27AY=Q7tpNdB7D7b2e3OwcZYWqksCWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jnrvrl$57h$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use
> swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and
> substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe.
>
> Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe
> depending on which filesystem you use, or something? Security holes?
> Any horror stories out there?
I think a swapfile cannot be used for suspend-to-disk. When creating a
swap file you should take care to ensure it is not fragmented.
Otherwise, performance should be equal between swap partition or swap
file under normal circumstances, as far as I know.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-02 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-02 18:53 [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles? walt
2012-05-02 20:31 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-05-02 20:33 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-02 20:58 ` Simon
2012-05-02 21:50 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-05-02 22:02 ` Paul Hartman
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