On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
..
> 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. Or you could test your drive using bonnie++ to find out which
> part is fastest, and put your swap there.
That is correct. In mordern drives, the CHS has no bearing to the physical
layout of the drive, so the old rules about "put the swap in the
[beginning|middle|end]" are less valid. However, it is true that the
beginning of the drive is fastest -- SANDRA Disk benchmarks (unfortunately
for Windoze only..) can tell you this.
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