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Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions



On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:06:18AM -0600, 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?

Yes, there is, at least with SCSI or SCSI/EIDE.

If you just have EIDE and the drives are reasonably recent,
I'd give it a try, too.

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