On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use > swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and > substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe. > > Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe > depending on which filesystem you use, or something? Security holes? > Any horror stories out there?
I think a swapfile cannot be used for suspend-to-disk. When creating a swap file you should take care to ensure it is not fragmented. Otherwise, performance should be equal between swap partition or swap file under normal circumstances, as far as I know.
