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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!col.hp.com!csn!ub!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!uniserve!usenet From: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2 swap devices: does it make sense? Date: 14 Jan 1996 23:48:21 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 10 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4dc4o5$ogm@atlas.uniserve.com> References: <87u41zetl7.fsf@compi.hobby.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc.sdf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.6 In article <87u41zetl7.fsf@compi.hobby.nl>, plm@compi.hobby.nl says... > >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? Yes. Swap space is automatically interleaved. Tom