swap file vs. swap partition

[Dotan Cohen]

On 7/30/05, Damian Menscher <menscher at uiuc.edu> 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
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Thanks. I don't need banchmarks, I just wanted to know. Setting it up now...

Dotan
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