Re: Interleaving swap and filesystem to reduce seek times

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:51:30 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Oskar Pearson wrote:

> If we were to interleave the swap and filesystem, the seek time would (for
> machines with one disk, at least) be reduced.

Did you tried to use a normal file as swap device. /tmp/swap instead of
/dev/hd??

Andrea Arcangeli

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