From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 3:58:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (mailout09.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BBBC37B40F for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:58:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fwd00.sul.t-online.de by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17NWyk-0006vJ-0A; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:58:22 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.228.221.212]) by fmrl00.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17NWyV-0tr7wGC; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:58:07 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.4/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RAwT1G084637; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:58:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200206271058.g5RAwT1G084637@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: loki_bsd@cox.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Order of swap devices in fstab Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:49:59 PDT." <200206270349.59835.loki_bsd@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:58:29 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Rogers writes: > I have two swap drives/slices defined in /etc/fstab. Does the order in which > these are read determine which slice will be used most? For example, one > drive is SCSI and the other is on the same IDE I boot from. I would assume > having the SCSI slice be more active would be faster. Is one of these used > more than the other or are they treated the same? > Swap use is interleaved. AFAIK there's no way to tell the kernel to use one swap partition in preference to another one. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message