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bp@www.zefox.net writes:
> If I was going to set up swap it seemed prudent to make it as fast
> as I reasonably could. I didn`t (and so far still don`t) have a clear
> idea how much difference a swap file versus a swap partition makes.
The difference is very little to nothing. It`s not like using a swap
file would need to go through the file system layer and all that. Not
since a long time. Here`s a discussion thread about the perf difference
from a couple of decades ago, when the 2.6 kernel was new:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/7/326
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