Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@daldata.no>]

> 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.

Any IDE setup with drives on different cables will improve 
when you split swap over several drives.  this because such drives
can be accessed simultaneously.

Don't bother spreading swap across drives on the *same* IDE cable,
they can't be accessed simultaneously and will improve nothing.  Two drives
on the same cable is very much like a single bigger drive - it is
the least useful setup for any purpose.

Helge Hafting