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To: Matthew Jason White <mwhite+@CMU.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Interleaved Swap? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 20:52:26 -0700
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>I have a question about how FreeBSD handles swap.  I currently have two
>swap partitions on two different SCSI drives.  When this swap is used,
>is the stored data being spread between the two drives or is one used
>and then the other?  I'm curious because obviously the first method
>would make better use of SCSI disconnect.

   It is interleaved between the multiple swap partitions.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project