Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:30:56 +0100 (BST) | Subject | Re: Static Swap |
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Hi,
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:42:31 -0400 (EDT), "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net> said:
> Create a simple daemon in C to do the dirty work. Shouldn't be > too difficult, but swap files are SLOW compared to partitions,
That used to be true, but the worst inefficiencies have been cured and in 2.2.*, swap files are not all that much slower than partitions (although they are still measurably slower).
--Stephen
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