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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Too much swap??? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4ai5qh$p8@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4adhdf$ft9@itchy.itsnet.com> <4af2oq$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4ahoj7$cte@news.ro.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 20:54:41 GMT Lines: 20 In article <4ahoj7$cte@news.ro.com>, Mike R. Prevost <mprevost@ro.com> wrote: >: > I was wondering if there is such a thing as too much >: > swap space with FreeBSD 2.1? > > >I'm wondering now multiple swap partitions work. Are they somehow in >order? -- like when the first one runs out does it use the second one or >what? Right now the problem is that the history disk is SO active it's >slowing down everything else because it's on the same disk as the swap >partition. Will I still have this problem? > Swap space is interleaved. When I chose the I/O sizes, I tried to make sure that the interleave is taken advantage of so that the effective performance is higher than if only one disk is used. You should see an improvement, especially if you have been swapping and doing user I/O on the same drive. An additional disk should help -- but again -- how much, I don't know. John dyson@freebsd.org