For many of the machines at ByteWorks, including the classroom machines and the EAC student machines, I've configured them to use a swapfile instead of a swap partition. This greatly simplifies maintenance of the machine and cloning of the disks. However, I've been wondering if there was any performance penalty for using a swapfile instead of a swap partition. After doing a few tests, I came to the conclusion that a swapfile is no worse than using a swap partition. In fact, according to the tests I did, using a swapfile is about 20% faster than using a swap partition.
For more details: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/msg/2c384970d73029df Regards, - Robert
