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Subject: Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD
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>
> My first is to allow for dynamically resizeable swap
> file of some sort, and via kqueue, a notification

especially with todays drives - it's waste of time to implement this.
nobody use swap FILES at all if swapping is needed unless he/she have no 
choice.

swapping partition always will be faster.

> believe this happened to when the swap partition and a
> swap file were on the same drive. Perhaps a way should
> be looked at to have multiple swap partititions and

why you simply won't make swap partition BIGGER on the first place.

swapping to files will be always much slower.