On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:11:42 -0500 "Mark Haney" <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is the 'same size as RAM' option still really valid for desktop/laptop > users I guess only experience/time will show what is the true size of swap if any for Your system. By the way I use a swap file - instead of partition. - I like it because of its thing size tuning. Do I loose any performance because of file and not partition? I have no possibility for now to test it on my system.