On 7/30/05, Damian Menscher <menscher@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I'm now prepearing to either create a swap file or a swap partition. I > > am interested in knowing if there is any difference in performance. > > Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks. > > A swap partition would be faster (think about it -- no filesystem > overhead). The only reason for a swap file is if you didn't plan your > partitioning scheme properly, and _need_ to add swap at a later date. > > Sorry, I don't have specific benchmark numbers for you. I'm not sure > how one would even go about benchmarking such a thing. > > Oh, you can also have multiple swap partitions, on different drives. > If you set them to the same priority, it will use all at the same time. > Kinda like a raid0 stripe, but without creating the software raid. If > you're concerned about stability, I think you can software raid the > drives first, and then create a swap partition on them (haven't actually > done this myself, since raid would damage performance). > > Damian Menscher > -- > -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- > -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- > -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- > -=#| <menscher@xxxxxxxx> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- > -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=- > Thanks. I don't need banchmarks, I just wanted to know. Setting it up now... Dotan http://song-lirics.com/sl/artist/69/better-than-ezra-lirics.php Better Than Ezra Song Lirics
