Nope. It will be same You can try turning off the swap to see the speed difference and then choose if you need it or not.
Install Gparted and it will allow you to disable and enable SWAP On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:40 PM, nishandh M <pro.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thankyou. going for a 4GB swap, i hope it leaves no margin for perfomance > flaws in memmory intensive tasks. and will there be a perfomance difference > is swap is Primary / Logical partition in an extended one? > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Aveek Sen <avee...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Anoop Jacob Thomas <anoo...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Swap comes into picture when you main memory is almost full. >>> >>> So if you want to run some memory intensive task, then better for bigger >>> swap(still it won't make your system faster). Or else if it is normal >>> usage(not memory intensive) then you don't need much swap area. >>> >>> -- >>> Anoop Jacob Thomas >>> >>> http://anoop.caremedia.org >>> >>> >> Its much like virtual memory in Windows systems >> >> -- >> Aveek >> >> -- >> "Freedom is the only law". >> "Freedom Unplugged" >> http://www.ilug-tvm.org >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "ilug-tvm" group. >> To control your subscription visit >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe >> To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> >> >> >> For details visit the google group page: >> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en >> > > > > -- > > > #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# > "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" > Leonardo da Vinci > > #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
