On Tuesday 10 July 2007 16:37, jbrave wrote: > Hmm - I partitioned it to use the entire disk as one partition - > doesn't it automatically create a swap file?
I don't think so. The installer will set up a swap partition, but if you want to swap to a file, you'll have to set that up yourself, manually, after you're up and running. I usually consider a swap file as a kind of emergency fallback only, to be used when some exigent condition makes swapping necessary where it was not needed before, and hence not configured. That or when for similar reasons, more swapping that was previously available becomes necessary. Depending on the file system and it's state of fragmentation, swapping / paging to a file may incur considerable extra overhead w.r.t. a swap partition, which will always have the lowest possible overhead 'cause there's no file system between swap and paging I/O and the ultimate disk sectors being read and written. > Joel Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
