Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Reddit, someone asked me if there are plans to switch to swap files > (as Ubuntu has) rather than making a partition by default. Do we have > any such plans? It seems like a small manageability benefit with not > much downside (other than, of course, the cost of changing things). I think in the past, there was a concern that accessing the swap file might itself trigger memory allocations from the file system, which would be bad because at that point, you are already in a low-memory situation. I don't know if that's still an issue, though, and how much of a problem it was in practice for non-network file systems. Florian _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
