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tomos:
... round robin swap ...
-MilesAhead (April 06, 2009, 02:47 PM)
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is that a linux thing Miles?

Shades:
Not really (wikipedia)

MilesAhead:
... round robin swap ...
-MilesAhead (April 06, 2009, 02:47 PM)
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is that a linux thing Miles?
-tomos (May 10, 2009, 04:39 PM)
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It's one of the options of the Linux Swap command.
With Windows you can have swap on or off and set the min max sizes and which drives have a swap file.  That's about it.  In Linux you have swap partitions specifically dedicated to swap.  Also you can dynamically create swap files. All other things being equal, swapping via partition is much faster than swapping to file. You can set things up to swap to one or more patitions, then if all swap is exhausted you can create a swap file.  I'm just going from memory.  If you google the man page on the swap command you can get details.  Don't know if it's been modified in recent years.  But it's quite a bit more versatile than the swap settings you can do with Windows.

tomos:

@Shades - it's an interesting history
@Miles - thanks for the explanation :)

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