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On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use |
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>> swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and |
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>> substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe. |
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>> Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap partition, maybe |
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>> depending on which filesystem you use, or something? Security holes? |
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>> Any horror stories out there? |
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> I think a swapfile cannot be used for suspend-to-disk. When creating a |
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> swap file you should take care to ensure it is not fragmented. |
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> Otherwise, performance should be equal between swap partition or swap |
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> file under normal circumstances, as far as I know. |
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And I will add: be sure the swapfile you create is not a sparse file! |
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