Rohan Beckles wrote:
> Hello --
>
> As part of a sweeping system performance upgrade, I plan on migrating
> the contents of my single system disk onto two 740GD Raptors, slaved
> together as RAID0. Question: where do I put the swap partition?
> Obviously, partitioning a RAID array doesn't help performance one
> jot, so how do I get around this?

Hardware or software RAID? If software, define two swap partitions, one
per drive, and put them at the end of the available space, since
transfer rate is higher there. The O/S will use both.

If you have just a big pseudo drive, the same process applies, put the
swap partition at the outer rim (high sector numbers) for best transfer
rate.

As an example, a 50MB transfer on a fairly slow drive takes 4.605 sec on
the inner tracks, and 3.521 on the outer. That will make your system
feel more responsive (slightly) if you have low memory.

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bill davidsen
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
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