Robert de Forest writes: > This is obviously more flexible, and since it's the same drive either > way, the only possible performance hit would be if the kernel made a > distinction.
Well, there's no performance hit at all if you never use the swap. However, when I switched from a swap partition to a swap file on my old machine, performance degraded substantially (running X in 8M, swap gets used). John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
