Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:28:34PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> Yes. If you put one disk on each ide channel/adapter/whatever and if
> you put swap partitions on each drive, you will get a speedup as the
> kernel is able to use both partitions concurrently (up to a point).
On the other hand, Linux 2.0.x doesn't seem to properly support
DMA on Intel Triton chipsets for the secondary controller; I get
a timeout and "DMA disabled" when it detects the disks. This appears
to be fixed in 2.1 though.
hamish
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