[PLUG] Ideal Swap partition size

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On Thursday 20 Mar 2008 21:22:09 शंतनु महाजन (Shantanoo Mahajan) wrote:
> How about having loopback mounted file to be used as swap instead of
> whole
> partition? This way you can increase/decrease the swap size. You can
> have
> multiple swaps. And since swap will be used occasionally, it may not
> have
> much impact on performance in desktop environment in most of the cases.

Care to share an illustration with commands? 

And how it is different that using swapfiles?

 Shridhar