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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What disk for swap partition Date: 22 Oct 1995 01:36:34 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <46c3mi$pgj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46b9sa$2ia@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >... 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? Most likely. Put something onto the IDE disk that's only rarely needed. Note: the / directory is being referenced very often, so having it on an IDE disk ain't such a good idea either. (You can also experiment with distributed swap. Most likely this will be faster than having it on a single disk.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)