Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?

On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote:
> Ok, new swapfiles are acessed as block, bypassing the filesystem:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326
>
> In this way, with physical access, really doesn't matter if is a
> partition or a swapfile...
>
> In this situation, a swap partition is only more easy to manage (You
> don't need to
> create the file after the instalation proccess) and can be shared by
> several SOs in a
> same computer. But swapfiles can be more flexible (you can expand and move
> more easily).
>
> I think I will prefer swapfiles in future instalations :)
>

I have a (small) swap partition, and a big 'emergeny' swapfile - that is 
hardly ever used.
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