Hi,
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:26:45AM -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> So what's the overhead these days of swap files versus partitions?
It will depend on lots of things like file fragmentation, but in
the kernel, the main overhead is the cost of looking up the
mapping of file locations to disk blocks when we are swapping.
--Stephen
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