Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:23:27 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: just a small VM idea |
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> Let`s imagine were having two mounted swap partitions. > Current situation, if im not going wrong is the next: > swapping to 1st partition, till there is a space on it > then swapping to the next one... > But if make two basic checks: > 1) if these partitions are on different drives > 2) i/o speed is approx the same > we can do parallel page writes/reads, therefore > in fact twicing swapping i/o...
If you swapon(8) both partition with the same priority, the kernel will stripe between them.
See 'man 8 swapon' for more info...
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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