Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:48:26 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap - 2 HDs Message-ID: <20051216194723.S21314@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <43A2C35E.9060206@dial.pipex.com> References: <20051216123357.4932.qmail@web31611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20051216131451.GV2413@merkur.atekomi.net> <43A2C35E.9060206@dial.pipex.com>
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> This is contrary to the "usual" advice which is to split swap across disks > AFAIK. I've never done any benchmarks, but my gut feeling would be that if > the disks were on separate controllers, and if the machine did swap regularly > then two swap partitions would be beneficial. Even on the same controller it it would be beneficial when at least two processes doing pagein/pageout. which is normal on loaded machine which needs swapping.
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