Swap Optimization

[Myles Green]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:18:42 -0600
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.

If you place your swap on it's own drive, on it's own channel, you will
get the best performance. Do you really have that many drives requiring
two IDE controler cards?


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