> > > Hi, > I was wondering whether there are any benefits to using a swap partition > as opposed to using a swap file. > I am running debian 1.3 on a system with relatively low resources (200 > megs HD, 12 megs ram), and have it set up to have a 12 meg swap partition. > But, today I found out about mkswap and how I can on the fly create a swap > file and use that. It seems like this would be pretty useful to me as I > can 'dynamically' choose how to allocate my memory / harddrive space. > > Is there any performance loss to making swapfiles (large ones), as opposed > to having a static swap partition? > Will it (this may sound silly, but my hard drive is old too ... 1993) > increase the wear and tear on my hard drive? > I use a 486 laptop w/ 8M ram and an 8M swap partition. This total of 16M has really never been a problem unless I run a bunch of heavy things at the same time. I f you're machine already has 12M, you could probably safely decrease your swap partition (8M, maybe 4). I would suggest leaving some sort of swap partition cause you don't always know when the machine wants more. On some occasions when my 16M isn't enough I do also make a swap file to use for that particular job and then get rid of it.
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