On Thursday 03 April 2003 21:08, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 17:46, Andrew Miehs wrote: > > hmmm.. Isn't it better to try and have swap in the middle of the disk? > > That way you always have about the same access time? Problem is, just > > because I > > That may be the case for sporadic swap access (this is really difficult to > benchmark however). > > But if your machine starts thrashing then you want the swap on the fastest > part of the disk. I'd guess that if your machine starts thrashing, you have other problems than worrying about swap performance. On a server, swap usage should imho be the rare exception. On a desktop, you'll see more swapping, with kde/gnome/whatever having grown as they are today (180M swap being used on my 384M desktop - and no sound/video/graphics app with big data loaded). cheers -- vbi
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