swapless in Toronto

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 07 February 2005 12:46, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=512
> mkswap /swapfile
> add swapfile to fstab the same way you would a partition for swap.  The
> performance difference is minimal as far as I know.

I expect DP is using a journalled file system (ext3 or reiserfs).  I expect 
that if he got into heavy swap usage, journalling the swapfile might slow 
things down even more.  Odds are that he won't run into that though.

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