You are correct, of course, my fault. :-)
This is apparently distribution-specific.
See 'priority' in the swapon([28]) pages:
Swap pages are allocated from areas in priority order,
highest priority first. For areas with different priori-
ties, a higher-priority area is exhausted before using a
lower-priority area. If two or more areas have the same
priority, and it is the highest priority available, pages
are allocated on a round-robin basis between them.
Here's a demonstration of round-robin (striped versus concatenated) swap:
$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda4 partition 546200 816 1
/dev/sdb4 partition 546200 808 1
#if Kelly Lynn Martin /* Apr 18, 14:38 */
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:59:27 -0400, Andy Davidoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >Under Linux, multiple swap partitions are automagically striped,
>
> This is not true, at least not under 2.2.12:
> [kelly@poverty ca]$ cat /proc/swaps
> Filename Type Size Used Priority
> /dev/hda4 partition 189496 95732 -1
> /dev/hdc5 partition 25952 0 -2
#endif /* kelly */
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Andy Davidoff
Sen. Unix SA, EECS
Tufts University
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