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| From | Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi |
| Subject | Re: Adding a hardware swap partition |
| Date | 2026-03-13 14:16 +0000 |
| Organization | University of Cambridge, England |
| Message-ID | <cCF*oCqBA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> (permalink) |
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: > I think that is an interesting summary, the point being made that speed > is dominated today by disk access times, not CPU cycles in addressing a > file system. > And with the demise of spinning rust, there is no seek delay either, so > the theoretical advantages of an actual partition in the disks low > sector area, no longer outweigh the operational simplicity of a swap file. > > Like so many other things that grew out of limited RAM and slow spinning > rust disks, the swap partition is really no longer necessary... One advantage of a swap partition is that it's a dedicated space - if you start running low on space it may limit the size of swapfile that can be created, which has a knock-on impact on performance. Another reason is if you're using hibernate. You need swap space at least as large as RAM to save out your memory contents to, so that can prevent hibernate working if you are running low on space. Also hibernate/restore is a fairly low-level process and swap partitions are easier to setup for that than swap files. Theo
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Re: Adding a hardware swap partition bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-03-25 18:53 +0000
Re: Adding a hardware swap partition The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-16 12:38 +0000
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