Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:17:43 +0100 | From | François Cami <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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James A Sutherland wrote:
>>Obviously the problem is very much lessened, in my case, when >>i put the swap partition on the *other* drive than the root fs. >>Both are ATA100 (40GB 60GXPs), and the system is more responsive >>with swap on hdc while / in on hda, than both on hda. >> > > Hmm... if you've experimented with this, how does this setup compare to a > striped RAID of hda+hdc used for root and swap? (i.e. is the speedup down to > splitting accesses between two spindles?)
I haven't, but it's a good idea, I may give it a try, but not very soon.
François
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