[GLLUG] no swap installation

[Jeremy Bowers]

Matt Graham wrote:
> In new installations with reasonably fast disks (not laptops) and reasonably
> fast CPUs, I'd go with swap files over swap partitions.  They're more flexible
> and you won't miss the ~5% performance hit in normal usage.

Yeah, since if you're hitting swap *at all* you've already lost.

One advantage a partition has is that it can be used for software 
suspend, if you can get it working. I just tried with kernel 2.6.9, and 
it is finally working for me; all I have to do is unload driverloader 
(the commercial ndiswrapper) and everything else works. (Oh, and 
pre-emption borks the resume process for me, killing the process that 
initiated the suspension, so I shut off pre-emption.) I don't think you 
can do that with a file.