On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie 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.
I thought that was all done at swapon time? Or can Linux
now deal with memory allocations while writing to disk?
If so, that makes a lot of an email conversation I observed
between Alan and Matt Dillon interestingly inaccurate.
Matthew.
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