Paris Nord Train Station. Paris Nord Train Station. The Paris Nord Train Station (Gare du Nord) was originally built in 1846. Shortly after, it was rebuilt three times to increase the size of the station due to increasing traffic. The new and improved station was fully functional by 1864.
Linux has two forms of swap space: the swap partition and the swap file. The swap partition is an independent section of the hard disk used solely for swapping; no other files can reside there. The swap file is a special file in the filesystem that resides amongst your system and data files. To see what swap space you have, use the command swapon -s.
I agree with comment about more RAM. Answering your question: you can create either additional swap partition (if you have extra space on a hard drive) or create swap file. The more swap in use the more load on your hard disk and definitely the slower the system. would also say using a file instead of a partition typically multiply the access time if you use a fragmented filesystem, making your probably slow system, slower. Due your used swap size, I would set /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to 100, it may decrease disk the activity at the expanse of an higher swap space usage.