[haiku-development] Re: VirtualMemory preferences

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:14:40 +0100 CET

Skar Cat <skarmiglione.sk4r@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can be considerated a swap partition? is this better than a swap 
> file, no?
> maybe a optional configure option for a  swap partition?

As long as the file is not fragmented, the difference is pretty much 
neglectible. It would be nice to share the swap partition with Linux, 
though, so that you don't waste disk space -- of course, this wouldn't 
work that nicely with hibernation.

Bye,
   Axel.


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