Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:02:48AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > 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,

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-26 Thread Helge Hafting
> 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 hav

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-25 Thread Thomas Keusch
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

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-24 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Alexander, > > Doesn't this ignore the fact that having two heads working back and > > forth is faster than just one? Part of the reason people do raid arrays, > > even at the lower levels, because they get all the heads working at the same > > time and it lowers access time. I'd think the

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-24 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Steve Lamb, Stardate 230199.1723: > Doesn't this ignore the fact that having two heads working back and > forth is faster than just one? Part of the reason people do raid arrays, > even at the lower levels, because they get all the heads working at the same > time and it lo

Re: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 12:14:34PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > In general, no. Swap is not really a big concern unless you are memory Doesn't this ignore the fact that having two heads working back and forth is faster than just one? Part of the reason people do raid arrays, even at the lower leve

RE: 1 swap vs. 2 swap partitions

1999-01-23 Thread Shaleh
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? > T