> > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, if you can spread it across multiple controllers, it can > > speed things up. > > Right. > > > But, generally I think that swap is used in > > a serial manner, eg the first chunk gets used up before the > > next one is started, etc. > > That's wrong. See the Handbook section titled "Swap Partition". > http://www.freebsd.org/handbookconfigtuning-initial.html#SWAP-DESIGN > > > So, that would mean that you would > > want to put only a little on the boot drive (you need some there > > for special occasions) and most of the rest on another drive > > and another controller if you can. > > Because FreeBSD tries to "stripe" the usage across all of the swap > space, you're best off giving it space on all of the disks. However, > if your disks are not all the same speed, you're better off sticking > to the fastest ones for swap space.
Hmmm. Guess I am out of date on this part. Some older systems I worked on (not necessarily FreeBSD) did not stripe swap. It's very nice that FreeBSD does. ////jerry _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
