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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2 swap devices: does it make sense?
Date: 15 Jan 1996 05:30:15 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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Message-ID: <MICHAELV.96Jan14213015@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In-reply-to: plm@compi.hobby.nl's message of Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:18:59 GMT
In article <87u41zetl7.fsf@compi.hobby.nl> plm@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
If I define 2 swap devices, each on a different disk, and I'm doing
heavy disk I/O: will both swap devices be used by FreeBSD 2.1 to
divide the disk I/O over the two disks?
All BSD Unix (that I know of) does interleaved swap. Yes.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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