How much swap?

[Martin Marques]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, James Wilkinson wrote:

> I understand that you need a proper swap partition if you want to
> suspend the system to disk. Otherwise, you might just as well see how
> you get on without swap, and add swap files (which are normal files in a
> Linux filesystem) later if you need them.

Is there any performace issues related to using swap files instead of a 
swap partition?

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