Re: Swap vnode's [was overcommit thread]

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 13:26:45 EST


Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:11:49AM -0800, David Whysong wrote:
> >
> > Please, no. Last time I checked, swap partitions were significantly faster
> > than swap files. And if you have to grow the file things will get worse.
>
> They are much closer in performance these days. The swap file
> handling has been improved substantially.

So what's the overhead these days of swap files versus partitions?

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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