14 Mar
2011
14 Mar
'11
06:38
Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:06:45 +0100 Per Jessen
wrote: Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Urban legend. There is no filesystem layer involved after swapon.
How do you avoid that when you're swapping to a swapfile?
the file's blocks are mapped on swapon and after that the kernel writes directly to these blocks. The only performance penalty you'll see is if the file is heavily fragmented.
Ah, interesting, thanks. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org