Swap Optimization

[Net Llama]

--- Jason Joines <joines at joines.bus.okstate.edu> wrote:
>      Which would result in better performance?
> 
> 1.  Swap on partition 1 of ATA 100 drive on ATA 133 controller with OS
> 
> on partition 2 of same drive.
> 
> 2.  Swap on only partition of ATA 33 drive on ATA 100 controller with
> OS 
> on partition 1 of ATA 100 drive on ATA 133 controller.

There's a lot more to consider here than just the location of your
partitions and the type of controller that the device uses.

For starters, how much physical memory do you have?  What kind of
physical memory do you have?  What is the box going to be used for? 
There's always a possibility that your swap partition may never be used
at all, depending on these other factors.  Realistically, if you're this
concerned about disk performance, you should be using SCSI hardware, not IDE.

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