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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!usenet From: mccrobi@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: What disk for swap partition Date: 21 Oct 1995 17:15:54 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: <46b9sa$2ia@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: mccrobi@ibm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: slip132-87.dc.us.ibm.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 I am running FreeBSD 2.0 with two disks: - IDE 244 MB - Fast SCSI-2 700MB on Buslogic 747C card - 486 DX 33Mhz, 16MB RAM The kernel is booted from the IDE drive. Only the root and the swap are on the IDE and everything else is on the SCSI-2 disk. Would I be better served to put the swap on the SCSI-2 disk since, as I understand it, IDE drives require the CPU to do the transfer? Is this a mute point in that the transfer to the controller is as fast as the to the SCSI-2 disk using DMA? (I know the DMA will free the CPU for other processing.) Chuck McCrobie This is root's plan, to root out all other roots.