[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.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University