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Re[2]: Jewish List (was: Re: The new kid on the block.)
"Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> wrote:
> #2 (swap file) is somewhat better than swap partition if you have only 1
> disk. The speed of swapping to file vs. swapping to partition is sensibly
> the same (moving heads in the same partition to access file is slightly
> faster than moving heads farther to access swap partition, and this
> compensates for the calc. overhead used for file-swapping by the kernel
> internals).
On the other hand, in the case of improper shutdown (power down, for example),
having a large active file raises the probability of fs errors on that partition
and thus, chances of fsck to fail in the auto repair mode on the following boot.
Regards,
Evgeny
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