Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:02:58 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: brianc@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Multiple swaps slow down system? Message-ID: <199608241902.MAA05377@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Aug 96 21:33:20 -0400. <199608240133.VAA00217@ottawa.net>
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>Due to some debate in one of the usenet I decided to try using
>multiple swap partitions, one on an IDE drive and the other on a SCSI
>drive, to see if it increased performance. I can't say I noticed
>any performance increase while using the system.
>However, I find it takes several times longer for a shutdown to
>complete. Is there any logic to that?
I don't know why that happens, but I wouldn't expect it to give you
much of a performance boost, since IDE doesn't do asynchronous I/O (at
least under *BSD anyway). If you have a very busy system, I would
expect it to give you a performance drop, in fact.
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