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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:35:09 -0700
From:      "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To:        "Tani Hosokawa" <unknown@riverstyx.net>, "Kris Kennaway" <kkenn@rebel.net.au>
Cc:        "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Gianmarco Giovannelli" <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Installing Linux (and bootblocks)
Message-ID:  <000001bed260$de1a6e00$021d85d1@youwant.to>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907192030511.15470-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>

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> > 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



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