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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:12:03 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@mwaikambo.name>
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To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:

> > > /dev/md1                swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> > 
> > One small thing, you do know that you can interleave swap?
> 
> There are sometimes reasons not to do that.
> Heavy swapping may be caused by attempts to cache 
> massive io on some fs.  You better not have swap
> on that heavily accessed spindle - because then
> everything ends up waiting on that io.
> 
> Keeping swap somewhere else means other programs
> just wait a little for swap - undisturbed by the massive
> io also going on.

True, but what i meant was that instead of creating a RAID device to swap 
to, he could have just interleaved normal swap partitions and gotten the 
same effect.

Regards,
	Zwane Mwaikambo

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