How much swap?

[Martin Marques]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, James Wilkinson wrote:

> Martin Marques wrote:
>> Is there any performace issues related to using swap files instead of a swap
>> partition?
>
> Depending on how you lay things out, a swap file that's physically close
> on disk to the rest of the files you're accessing may well be faster
> than a swap partition at one end of the disk because the drive head can
> get to the right track faster.

So it really depends on *where* the swap file or swap partition is on the 
disk (I tend to put heavy duty patitions first), rather then if it's a 
file or a partition.

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