Best swap cylinders?

John Twilley jmt at NDA.COM
Thu Oct 23 23:47:56 EDT 1997


Hrm.  My ideal preference for swap would be in the middle.

/dev/hda1 45% of the drive 
/dev/hda2 10% of the drive <--- swap
/dev/hda3 45% of the drive

With the theory that the seek time would be minimized on average iff
the system spent time equally in each of the other partitions.

Jack.
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