Hi Alexander, > > Doesn't this ignore the fact that having two heads working back and > > forth is faster than just one? Part of the reason people do raid arrays, > > even at the lower levels, because they get all the heads working at the same > > time and it lowers access time. I'd think the same would apply to swap. > > for this you'd need raid support for swap. I am not sure if swap could be on a > raid ... however, I am pretty sure that swap has no build in raid support. Actually, there IS some kind of RAID support built into the swapping code. If you activate 2 swap partitions with equal priority, all swapping will get distributed equally to those partitions - that might give some performance increase, of course!
(add parameter pri=xx to /etc/fstab swap entry.) HTH. Tino.
