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Re: swap confusion



On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 09:03, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> I have just watched my system booting and noticed that my two
> swap-partitions have different priorities:
> 
> Sep  1 18:30:12 blaubaer kernel: Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1)
> Sep  1 18:30:12 blaubaer kernel: Adding Swap: 530136k swap-space (priority -2)
> 
> As they reside on two different hard drives, it might be smarter to have
> them both at the same priority, as they will be used "on a round-robin
> basis" (from swapon(2) ). So let's go ahead and set the priority in
> /etc/fstab with pri=PRIORITY, but wait... the man page tells me that
> swap priority can have any non-negative value, but the above kern.log
> tells me both partitions have a negative value. Could someone please
> enlighten me what this is all about?
> 
> thanks
> joerg
> 
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I would be interested in that aswell !!

greets Benny



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