BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       Anssi Saari
Data:     Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:53:27 +0200
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bp@www.zefox.net writes:

> If I was going to set up swap it seemed prudent to make it as fast
> as I reasonably could. I didn't (and so far still don't) have a clear
> idea how much difference a swap file versus a swap partition makes.

The difference is very little to nothing. It's not like using a swap
file would need to go through the file system layer and all that. Not
since a long time. Here's a discussion thread about the perf difference
from a couple of decades ago, when the 2.6 kernel was new:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326


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