Re: Swap partition vs swap file

Andrew Morton
2005-06-29T05:04:11Z

Mike Richards <mrmikerich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given this situation, is there any significant performance or
> stability advantage to using a swap partition instead of a swap file?

In 2.6 they have the same reliability and they will have the same
performance unless the swapfile is badly fragmented.