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Re: Jewish List (was: Re: The new kid on the block.)



On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Erez Doron wrote:

> do not take it too literary ! i think he ment dual boot, and not
> 'exactly 2 partitions'.
> 
> in any case:
> Though it is beter to have a swap partition, you may instead
> 1. do not use swap at all, or:
> 2. use a swap file on either your linux or windows partition

You are right with #2. #1 is not a good idea if you want to run
X11+Mozilla on a 'normal' PC (<64MB ram) 

#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).

Peter