From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat May 12 13:51:17 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9986FDC99E for ; Sat, 12 May 2018 13:51:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 866F46BE92 for ; Sat, 12 May 2018 13:51:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E18242E5 for ; Sat, 12 May 2018 09:51:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 12 May 2018 09:51:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:message-id :mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm2; bh=psty9/4W5wiZPy8V+u3BVis+7PrkCt1jMgoBDRojDIw=; b=PFyGP9gX rJWi5Z94rvCuSJw8DOQMzd6cvUHUnVBEvz26bX9CMyKGPlxPehVweoET3JrI6J/q 10t6Nvpn6RXMVd1vi0G5EmhO5Cz9nTibDxDNdplsfY06yDl9tKpnGc7SQwQuDyeA /Bg6pt92kDzQrcYQv7aSRQaIA3f+wwlaDLt7y7aqR3VH3Spfv2pHY3tjsYbiH2HA Lwn8Xj7InPCbKK2udwpJCJ7kLi4yiVLSX2qxIwXMytPND5gFoTaiEZQP4zlZsIi3 qCNbHG1LO/UtMEJKZYd41ETC/EIpboY50hoKfCu/QQzu5mCtlkCT+KZ17fRPFxVQ st+R3DJZWG76cA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:message-id:mime-version:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=psty9/4W5wiZPy8V+u3BVis+7PrkC t1jMgoBDRojDIw=; b=jPtDwv8XDv7sdgwXBLr8ezj6h0ksejtArXY7aF0hVezpl jiQdxYoMguFmHWr1KsSIMkgu/bqsbxjus+cg8o7EKt5yH2aqCDQz97RFM2KYxatg ckUhg5NI9jsDf4Bh2XBGGJg7019UzK1yIj047ILS8oKxPppGh8WaFOKDbQxaQu4+ /LIOsw0QmoGHdzaurda8frqJ87Bfv4OuCrZIzIYLrzQOXgxvQu8ovi/mARVRBgFB r6Fnld9BAPAzV/+5ArzVT8Ph/JUcry5QsmWvX9QbmNzlGNtVO3ovUl2oCHT7PHC3 hSlMQyrfPtkNNV62NBcYXK6pPS5nsEx3ZePUb3Pew== X-ME-Sender: Received: from desktop.local (parsley.growveg.org [82.70.91.97]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 11527E4365 for ; Sat, 12 May 2018 09:51:15 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: tech-lists Subject: swapfile question Organization: none Message-ID: <09eab1d4-3dd8-3530-bdbf-b436ec6aeeed@zyxst.net> Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 14:51:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 13:51:18 -0000 Hi, In a SSD/amd64/ufs2/freebsd-11 context, which is faster: 1. swap as a partition on the ssd 2. swap as a file on the ssd If one is faster than the other, why? To what extent? thanks, -- J.