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Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       The Natural Philosopher
Data:     Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:01:50 +0000
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On 13/03/2026 14:16, Theo wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>> I think that is an interesting summary, the point being made that speed
>> is dominated today by disk access times, not CPU cycles in addressing  a
>> file system.
>> And with the demise of spinning rust, there is no seek delay either, so
>> the theoretical advantages of an actual partition in the disks low
>> sector area, no longer outweigh the operational simplicity of a swap file.
>>
>> Like so many other things that grew out of limited RAM and slow spinning
>> rust disks, the swap partition is really no longer necessary...
> 
> One advantage of a swap partition is that it's a dedicated space - if you
> start running low on space it may limit the size of swapfile that can be
> created, which has a knock-on impact on performance.
> 
I dont think you understand the nature of a swapfile.

It is a fixed length file.


> Another reason is if you're using hibernate.  You need swap space at least
> as large as RAM to save out your memory contents to, so that can prevent
> hibernate working if you are running low on space.  Also hibernate/restore
> is a fairly low-level process and swap partitions are easier to setup for
> that than swap files.
> 
Again, you are talking bollocks. Swap files are pre-allocated, of fixed 
size, and zero filled.


> Theo

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