From: "François Cami" <stilgar2k@wanadoo.fr>
To: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, war <war@starband.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap vs No Swap.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:17:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFD4F57.8030408@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0111221456020.1491-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <3BFD4A42.8090002@wanadoo.fr> <E166z3N-00020W-00@mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk>
James A Sutherland wrote:
>>Obviously the problem is very much lessened, in my case, when
>>i put the swap partition on the *other* drive than the root fs.
>>Both are ATA100 (40GB 60GXPs), and the system is more responsive
>>with swap on hdc while / in on hda, than both on hda.
>>
>
> 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.
François
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-22 1:53 Swap vs No Swap war
2001-11-22 2:23 ` Joel Jaeggli
2001-11-22 2:31 ` war
2001-11-22 2:58 ` Mark Hahn
2001-11-22 4:09 ` listmail
2001-11-22 5:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-22 5:30 ` war
2001-11-22 5:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-22 9:50 ` Christian Bornträger
2001-11-22 8:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-22 11:00 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 16:00 ` war
2001-11-22 16:08 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 16:57 ` Rik van Riel
2001-11-22 18:56 ` François Cami
2001-11-22 18:58 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 19:17 ` François Cami [this message]
2001-11-22 19:36 ` G . Sumner Hayes
2001-11-22 20:37 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-23 6:30 ` Charles Marslett
2001-11-23 9:13 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-23 16:46 ` Charles Marslett
2001-11-22 16:25 ` war
2001-11-22 16:37 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-22 17:39 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 17:56 ` war
[not found] ` <01112211150302.00690@argo>
2001-11-22 16:01 ` war
2001-11-22 16:12 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 16:36 ` war
2001-11-22 16:33 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-11-22 17:37 ` Thomas S. Iversen
2001-11-22 21:18 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-11-22 17:41 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-22 17:56 ` war
2001-11-22 18:08 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-23 22:05 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-22 16:11 Elgar, Jeremy
2001-11-22 16:22 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-11-22 16:22 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-11-22 16:29 Elgar, Jeremy
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10111221006010.29736-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-11-22 16:34 ` war
2001-11-26 20:18 ` Kent Borg
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