Re: multiple swap partitions
You may want to look at this article
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-swaptip2.html
--b
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:06:08 -0500 (EST)
Yijian Wang <yiwang@ECE.NEU.EDU> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am writing to ask if anybody is familiar with multiple swap partitions
> on multiple disks.
>
> How does the virtual mameory manager deal with the multiple partitions?
>
> How does it decide which partition to hold a page
> that is going to be paged out from the memory?
>
> Can the usr process have control over which swap partition it wants use?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yijian Wang
>
>
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