RE: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions
On 23-Jan-99 Andrew Ivanov wrote:
> Hi.
> I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an
> additional swap on it.
> The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if
> instead of one big swap on one disk I have 2/more small ones on separate
> disks?
> TIA,
> Andrew
In general, no. Swap is not really a big concern unless you are memory
starved. However if do a lot of disk accessing, placing the swap on a separate
device DOES help. otherwise the seek heads have to constantly pan back and
forth from data to swap.
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