On 1 Oct, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> Hmm, never heard of swap not working before. Are you sure you are
> invoking it correctly? Try the script below. Note that with multiple
> SCSI disks, swap will be a bit more efficient if the swapfiles are on
> different disks instead of all in one partition. Using swapfiles
> instead of swap partitions conserves partitions -- since you need at
> least four swap spaces to swap a full 512 MB (linux has a 128 MB limit
> per) you would need to break up a single disk into 5+ partitions,
> which is a pain.
Is using swap files any faster or slower than using swap partitions?
-M@
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