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SubjectRe: striped swapping?
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:11:59 +0100 (BST), Steve Payne
> <srp20@cam.ac.uk> said:
>
> > If I have two swap partitions on two separate hard drives (on separate
> > busses) under linux is the swapper clever enough to strip (even corsely
> > (sp?)) bewteen them? (I'm guessing you _can_ have more than one swap
> > partition active at once).
>
> Yes, IF you are using the new swapon from util-linux-2.5 or later, AND
> you use the new priority flags to give both your swap partitions the
> same priority. If you don't do this, then the earlier installed
> partitions will be swapped to in preference to the later ones.
>

Ok, so how do I use it, I do:
# swapoff -a
# swapon -v -p 10 /dev/hda2

I'm guessing about the 10, and it sais:
swapon: illegal option -- p
usege: swapon [-hV]
swapon -a [-v]
swapon [-v] [-p priority] special ...

Hmm, look's broken to me, this is util-linux-2.5-7 (from the Red Hat
distribution). I'm just about to get the source of the util-linux
package from one of my cd's. Hmm, look's like it wasn't compiled with
priorites on, time to recompile .... perhaps it sould have said that when
I tryed to use them, oh well ... (and then not have the -p options appear
in the usage). Going to fix my utils now ....

> Cheers,
> Stephen.
> --
Bryn
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