What are everyones opinions on the the swap issue? like If i have a 1GB 
swap partiion does it get fragmented? How does this get affected by the 
new VM in 2.4 kernels?

Does a larger swap file require more management and thus slows down a 
system if it is bigger than necessary?

JG

William Kenworthy wrote:
> Have not seen a method to dynamicly grow the file, but it certainly
> kills performance once you fill mem, swap and then go to disk file! 
> When 8.2 comes out I will redo the disk layout to something a bit more
> suited to what I need when I upgrade.  With win2000 prof, swap and
> reiserfs partitions on the same system, its rather difficult to just
> adjust things!
> 

> 
> 
>>Although I haven't done it, (393 megs ram 64 shared for video and about a
>>2% average usage of the 256megs of swap available) You can set up a swap
>>file in linux.  It works simular to the swap file in windows and just like
>>windows it's slower than a swap partition.  It can however from what I'm
>>told grow dynamically with your system.  This might do what you are
>>talking about.  
>>
>>James



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