Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:06:56 -0800 (PST) From: Aloha Guy <alohaguy123@yahoo.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: swap file vs swap partition Message-ID: <773743.47815.qm@web53612.mail.yahoo.com>
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Greetings everyone:=0A=0AI am planning to build a few new boxes which will = run -RELEASE and -CURRENT and I have a question about the swap file. In th= e past, I had always used a swap partition of 256MB since I originally had = 128MB system memory in the 1990's but my system has been upgraded to 2GB an= d it seems the swap file would have more flexibility as I can just change t= he size of the swapfile if I needed to. My question is is there any differe= nce in performance between a swap file versus a swap partition and can one = run a system with a swap file instead of a swap partition? Also, searching= has not gotten me very far but are there any drawbacks to a swap file inst= ead of a swap partition? I read somewhere that a few people seem to think = that a swap file can't handle kernel crash dumps? Shouldn't it be the same= as both of them occupy disk space and as long as the swap file is large en= ough, wouldn't it work? Thanks.=0A=0AJohn=0A=0A=0A =0A____________________= ________________________________________________________________=0AYahoo! M= usic Unlimited=0AAccess over 1 million songs.=0Ahttp://music.yahoo.com/unli= mited
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