Re: Hard Discs and Virtual Memory ...
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 06:48:47AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Shouldn't he be using the bigger disk for swap? A 1.2 GB drive is likely
> to be slower (older=slower).
I think he's got the right idea. The drive may be slower, but it
won't be doing anything else, so swap requests won't have to wait
for other reads/writes to complete and other reads/writes won't be
interrupted by the heads getting dragged off to another section of
disk.
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