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From: "G . Sumner Hayes" <sumner-kernel-nospam@forceovermass.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Cami?= <stilgar2k@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
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In-Reply-To: <3BFD4F57.8030408@wanadoo.fr>; from stilgar2k@wanadoo.fr on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:17:43PM +0100
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On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:17:43PM +0100, Fran?ois Cami wrote:
> James A Sutherland wrote:
> 
> > Hmm... if you've experimented with this, how does this setup compare
> > to a striped RAID of hda+hdc used for root and swap? (i.e. is the
> > speedup down to splitting accesses between two spindles?)
> 
> I haven't, but it's a good idea, I may give it a try, but not very soon.

You shouldn't need striping for this--if you have two swap partitions
with equal priority, the kernel will "stripe" them itself.

At least that's my understanding.

  Sumner
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