Messages in this thread | | | From | James A Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:37:20 +0000 |
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On Thursday 22 November 2001 7:36 pm, G . Sumner Hayes wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:17:43PM +0100, François Cami wrote: > > James A Sutherland wrote: > > > 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. > > You shouldn't need striping for this--if you have two swap partitions > with equal priority, the kernel will "stripe" them itself. > > At least that's my understanding.
It'll stripe the SWAP area, but not the root FS; what I'm interested in is how performance is affected by splitting both across two devices, compared to putting one on each.
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