Quoting Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 at 11:16, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
> >then we set our swap at the end of each of the disks. our rule of thumb
> >here is (for main memories < 512MB)
>
> Just a note, AFAIK the beginning of a drive is normally faster than the
> end. I would then put my swap right after /boot, so that it's fastest
> just in case.
... not if the heads are coming from the edge of the disks.
some people put their swap right smak in the middle,
so it's always "along the way" when the heads go back and forth across the disk.
wdyt?
-eric
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