-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:51:53 -0500 Ron Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David R. Litwin wrote: [snip] > > Note that there are no swap partitions. This is because I use > swap *files*, which give you much more flexibility. (In case you > add more RAM later, you just add another swapfile, whereas with > partitions, you're stuck with your initial partition map.) > > >> But IIRC swap files are slower then swap partitions. Probably a >> better solution is to have a basic swap partition and then add >> swap files as needed (it I recall there is also a utility for >> automatically adding swap files but I don't remember more).
That's how they were back before 2.6. Allegedly swapfiles are now just as "fast" as partitions. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEiiK0S9HxQb37XmcRAthjAKDc0TcEuWwcY65/R5Fi91ZGp516GQCfTEwE nlbI7mH6Y6/h68HiBniyGbw= =7vA0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]