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I am currently using a shared swap space (between linux 1.2.0 and ms-windows
3.1/ dos 6.2).  I was just wondering if I would notice a performance
difference if I switched to using a swap space specifically for linux.

Anybody know the difference between the two in terms of performace.

I have a pentium 90 with 16meg.  I generally run apps that end up using
an average of 8 meg of swap.

Thanks for any info.

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Ken Moroney

You don't tell how you are sharing swapspace. I once used to use the
Windows swapfile (mkswap /dosc/<what's_the_things_name on every boot),
and that goes over the filesystem (which means it's *y slow). If you
use the method where you put Windows swap on a separate partition, dd
out the most important data of the partition and then make a swap partition
from it on every boot (and restore the DOS FAT filesystem on every shutdown),
you won't notice a performance difference, because it is essentially the
same method.

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