Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:36:39 -0500 | From | "G . Sumner Hayes" <> | Subject | Re: Swap vs No Swap. |
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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.
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