On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > /dev/md1 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> > One small thing, you do know that you can interleave swap?
>
> There are sometimes reasons not to do that.
> Heavy swapping may be caused by attempts to cache
> massive io on some fs. You better not have swap
> on that heavily accessed spindle - because then
> everything ends up waiting on that io.
>
> Keeping swap somewhere else means other programs
> just wait a little for swap - undisturbed by the massive
> io also going on.
True, but what i meant was that instead of creating a RAID device to swap
to, he could have just interleaved normal swap partitions and gotten the
same effect.
Regards,
Zwane Mwaikambo
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