>> Linux doesn't grow swapfiles at all. It uses what's there at mkswap time. >> You can make new ones of course - manually. > >And this part. I've never known linux to grow the swap file. I did try the >sparse one a long time ago. Of course it didn't work.
I can't remember where exactly I read it but: when swapon is called, a fixed-size(determined at swapon) bitmap of the swap blocks is generated (to cope with fragementation of swapfiles). Can somebody confirm this? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
