Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964923AbWIDNYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:24:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964914AbWIDNYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:24:00 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:18166 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964924AbWIDNX7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:23:59 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de> Subject: Re: Raid 0 Swap? To: Michael Tokarev , Marc Perkel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:21:08 +0200 References: <6R8WW-70v-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <6RgKP-1OA-9@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Troll: Tanz Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@elstempel.de X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:9b3b2cc444a07783f194c895a09f1de9 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 24 Michael Tokarev wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> If I have two drives and I want swap to be fast if I allocate swap spam >> on both drives does it break up the load between them? Or would it run >> faster if I did a Raid 0 swap? Swap has priorities, and it will do something like striping if two swap spaces have the same priority. [...] > Ie, your swap space must be reliable. At least not worse than your memory. It's mostly enough if it's as reliable as the system disk. > And with striping, you've much more chances of disk failure... It won't increase because of using striping, but because of the amount of disks used. -- Ich danke GMX daf?r, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten L?gen zu sabotieren. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/