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> Swap files appear to work fine, including on a mirrored root filesystem, and I've read that they're basically just as efficient as swap partitions these days
by phendrenad2 4y ago
> Swap files appear to work fine, including on a mirrored root filesystem, and I've read that they're basically just as efficient as swap partitions these days
I've been saying this for awhile, and I always get berated by angry linux nerds who didn't do any research. The times they are a changin'?
- lamontcg 4y agoWe were using swapfiles on Linux at Amazon in 2001 just fine. No idea if someone perf tested it, but we did have pretty decent perf testing (and we did adjust swappiness based on perf testing).