Messages in this thread | | | From | "Sean Hunter" <> | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:08:54 +0100 | Subject | Re: Swap on two drives |
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On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 06:48:27PM -0400, Rui Sousa wrote: > laslo@wodip.opole.pl wrote: > You can define priorities for the swap partitions (see man 2 swapon) and I > think > that's the only difference the kernel will see. So if you have equally fast > disks > and one is mainly idle increase the priority of the swap partition in this > disk.
Further to this, if you have a lot of swap partitions with the same priority, linux stripes the swap across them. That's what I use on all my boxes.
Sean
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