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Re: 486-100/16mb. linux is slow



On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> Hmmm... i think the better soulotion here would be to make a swap file 
> rather then a swap space and mount that as a partition using loop.
> I have not tried to do this, but i see no reson why it shouldnt work.
> 
> Comments?

Hmm, one. This _IS_ a reasonable idea now that the guy has a partitioned 
disk. However, a swap file is 15-25% slower than a partition, in test 
that I ran... This was NOT a full size, bar none benchmark, just a few 
time `bigga program`.

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