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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