swapfile question

[Waitman Gobble]

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 6:51 AM, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a SSD/amd64/ufs2/freebsd-11 context, which is faster:
>
> 1. swap as a partition on the ssd
> 2. swap as a file on the ssd
>
> If one is faster than the other, why? To what extent?
>
> thanks,
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> J.
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Don't swap. 1 and 2 are both slower.

I use Warren Block's SSD setup and create swap file, seems to work A-OK.

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/


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