BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: Adding a hardware swap partition
De:       bp
Data:     Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:01 +1100
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Anssi Saari  wrote:
> 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
> 

Thank you. That answered my question!

bob prohaska


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