On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Narender <[email protected]> wrote: > I have done a lot of research, but I do not have any real world > experience so I'm hoping you can help me understand the real world > differences in performance. The research tells me that if you create a > swap file on an empty disk and on a OS using kernel 2.6 then the > performance differences are minor, but that the swap partition is a > slight favorite in terms of pure performance. > Our Scenario: > Raid 1 146GB partition > 33GB Swap File created on / (Note: the swap file was created when the > OS was built, so the hard drives were not full and they were very > empty) > Kernel 2.6 Thanks for this valuable info. If we can have swap files instead of swap partition, This can be a good approach to make simple distro. which will just need one partition for installation of GNU/Linux OS. (well this can be useful for begineer as they always tends to confuse at this stage while installation)
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