BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       Kees Nuyt
Data:     Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:25:32 +0100
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On 2026-03-13 02:26, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

> I was hopeful somebody would respond to my query regarding
> the relative speeds of swapfiles vs swap partitions. If
> they're anywhere close in performance a swapfile seems
> worth trying.

Run:
	vmstat -t 10 60
in a terminal while you are doing your daily tasks in other 
windows to see how much swap I/O there really is.

This command does 60 measurements with an interval of 10 
seconds, the si and so columns show the swap I/O.

Usually it is not much, so I wouldn't worry too much about 
performance.
-- 
Regards,
Kees

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