From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 19 20:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4578514C83 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:35:09 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Tani Hosokawa" , "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "Greg Lehey" , "Gianmarco Giovannelli" , Subject: RE: Installing Linux (and bootblocks) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:35:09 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bed260$de1a6e00$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > And Linux doesn't round-robin its' swap usage between devices, does it? > > > > I read that in an OS-comparison type article recently. > > I really couldn't say. I'm certain that there are distinct performance > improvements from having swap space on multiple drives, so I suspect that > Linux does round-robin its usage. Linux will interleave swap blocks if multiple swap devices are mounted with the same priority. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message