On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 11:45 +0200, Matthias Huber wrote: > Timo Juhani Lindfors schrieb: > > Matthias Huber <matthias.hu...@wollishausen.de> writes: > > > > > *** but if you are formatting the card, you can make a real swap > > > _partition_ also. > > > > > > > What are the advantages of a swap partition? The only one I can think > > of is that it can be used for software suspend. > > > > > afaik, it is much faster than file. > > -- > MatzeHuber
I use swapfiles occasionally on my desktop when it looks like I need more swap (large graphics - gimp) - I would disagree that a swap partition is "much" faster - experience shows its more like much, much, much ... faster :) Not of much use on th FR, but swap partitions on different drives having the same priority use a parallel striping for read/write (like raid0) for a speedup. BillK _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community