Al salaam a'alaykum Roy

14 Oct 03 03:54, Roy J. Tellason wrote to David Drummond:

 RJT>> Did you put swap anyplace in particular?  At the beginning?  The 
 RJT>> end?

 DD>> Two swap partitions at the beginning. The OS boos from partition 3.

 RJT> My initial install put it at the end,  but what I've done since 
 RJT> then,  on subsequent drives (and therefore easier to re-do the 
 RJT> partitioning) has had swap at the beginning as well.  Either extreme 
 RJT> would give roughly equal seek times and the outer tracks should give 
 RJT> a higher transfer rate if it's going to vary any based on the 
 RJT> physical aspects of the disk.

 RJT> I don't think I'd put two on the same drive,  though.  I did have 
 RJT> two running for a while in this machine here,  one on the drive I'd 
 RJT> been running and one on the drive I put in.  Separate spindles 
 RJT> always seems to be a good way to optimize things.

Unless one only has a single drive. 

The reason for two swap partitions is that the apparent maximum size for a
swap partition in Slackware 8 (and below) is 128Mb. I wanted 256Mb swap
space.

Regards,
David

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