Wise disk parting.

[John Summerfield]

Strong wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:11:42 -0500 "Mark Haney"
> <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>> Is the 'same size as RAM' option still really valid for desktop/laptop
>> users
> 
> I guess only experience/time will show what is the true size of swap if
> any for Your system.
> 
> By the way I use a swap file - instead of partition. - I like it
> because of its thing size tuning. Do I loose any performance because of
> file and not partition? I have no possibility for now to test it on my
> system.
> 

I was waiting for that question to arise. The answer, for 2.6 kernels, 
is no.

Previously, yest (but I doubt whether most would have noticed).



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