From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 4 20:06:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA35316A403 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:06:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alohaguy123@yahoo.com) Received: from web53612.mail.yahoo.com (web53612.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.39.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6645513C48E for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:06:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alohaguy123@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 47928 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Feb 2007 20:06:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=Zs2UhReZt6XesiLPbqwd0K9EDI0C1xt8gzD/PgEjyeIY+1kAsWtyLom2WMvRalSkmPNCmPQWNBGLLHQSaRw2YiASk/j6KIv0pjgdbSAxJhV74VWLfbu/JQbXYv7+1gC+htj4PRHZTT7J4yseffTMYb4rsULHYLH7NXuEl7ZexPc=; X-YMail-OSG: smzLhcEVM1k3qXamd4jPpZlArVOBQDsmXwE0XYf8ejMqVFDvmgkUJ7IncQmnJ2aw5TkkgSZCJhtLjyyHEEP2Ppk.Ijaq5uILn9fIf5KraL7Y_7FoOU8CF7kWGR1w.XPMFKwZ9cr_u.RNb.HFblU6ZdWP Received: from [208.201.244.225] by web53612.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:06:56 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/368.3 YahooMailWebService/0.6.132.7 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 12:06:56 -0800 (PST) From: Aloha Guy To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <773743.47815.qm@web53612.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: swap file vs swap partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:06:57 -0000 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