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Date:      Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:43:03 -0700
From:      Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A New FreeBSD Server
Message-ID:  <20060625064303.GR19592@silverwraith.com>
In-Reply-To: <17565.37706.966913.737964@bhuda.mired.org>
References:  <449D8616.5040306@tamara-b.org> <17565.37706.966913.737964@bhuda.mired.org>

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On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Why not RAID your swap? The extra reliability might not be worth very
> much, but the extra performance couldn't hurt - unless you don't plan
> on swapping at all. This is enough of a win that the swap subsystem
> will interleave swap usage across multiple drives, a facility that
> predates RAID. If you just split your swap across multiple drives, you
> get RAID0 behavior from swap.

Really? I thought it was possible to interleave multiple swap devices.
I'm probably wrong, but I thought I remembered seeing 'interleaved'
somewhere. Maybe my definition of interleaved is differented from
someone elses :-)



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