From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 15:45: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B11037B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:45:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507DB43E9C for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:45:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18F10L-0001Vf-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:45:05 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id ABC07677C for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:45:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 9DDBB1CD9 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:44:53 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 168E6225F6; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:44:54 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:44:54 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: A question of where to put swap Message-ID: <20021121234453.GA62470@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the realities if life :) My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3 Disk, but I have two modern, fast IDE disks that will be gaining a considerable amount of free space in the re-arrangements. I tend to run during the course of the day several extremely memory loving programs which cause paging/swapping to occur. I would like opinions on whether I would notice an improvement if I moved the swap area (which lives on the SCSI disk with the rest of the system) to the front of one of the IDE disks. I intend to make a new slice on the IDE disk anyway. I cannot afford any more memory (my mobo will not take it anyway). I ask this more out of curiosity than because it is a particular problem to me at the moment .. but future plans may change the criticality of such decisions. (I am not sure there is such a word as criticality...). Thanks for any input. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message