On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:48, civileme wrote:
> On Monday 17 February 2003 04:35 am, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:26 pm, Chuck Burns wrote:
> > > GACK!  *clue* You can have MORE than one swapfile!  make the other
> > > partition a SECOND swapfile.. done..
> >
> > Not done.  Make sure you have an entry for the second swapfile in
> > /etc/fstab.
>
> Two swapfiles on same disk?  Well that is about as useful as...  No,
> something needs to break up the blankness on the male chest...
>
> If you make two swaps, put one on each disk, then they will stripe like a
> RAID0.  If you have two swaps on the same disk you need to assign
> priorities for use orelse they will attempt to stripe with a lot of
> unnecessary head-stepping and will be the slowest swap you ever saw.
>
> Civileme

I also do not see the point in a 5GB swap. This was his /home on a 10GB drive.

-- 
Michael

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