On 23-Jan-99 Andrew Ivanov wrote: > Hi. > I recently added a new HD to my system, and I have a chance to put an > additional swap on it. > The question is: is there any gain in speed of accessing swap memory if > instead of one big swap on one disk I have 2/more small ones on separate > disks? > TIA, > Andrew
In general, no. Swap is not really a big concern unless you are memory starved. However if do a lot of disk accessing, placing the swap on a separate device DOES help. otherwise the seek heads have to constantly pan back and forth from data to swap.
