[CentOS] Swap Considerations

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:56 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] Swap Considerations
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 at 2:53pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote
> 
> > If you have 4 1GB swap partitions of equal priority it will 
> interleave
> > operations between them giving you a RAID0 type effect and 
> increasing
> > overall swap performance.
> 
> Note that this will only increase your swap performance if those 
> partitions are on separate physical hard drives.  If they're 
> all on the 
> same spindle -- well, that's a bit silly.

Yes, true, if you have the spindles.

-Ross

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