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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