On 03/14/11 4:45 PM, Nataraj wrote: > Do you have any sense of whether this takes a big performance hit with > software raid? (I was actually planning on hardware raid but the system > got ordered incorrectly). if you have adequate memory for your workload, very little data gets written to swap, and what is written is done in the background so its of little importance to performance. if your swap is mirrored, writes have to be done to both devices, while reads can be load balanced across them, so the write performance is equivalent to a single disk, while the read performance in aggregate may be twice as fast as a single drive. if you DONT have adequate memory for your workload, your performance will suck pretty badly regardless of how fast the swap device(s) are.