From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 11:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11008 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10883 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 11:24:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26426; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:09:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806081809.OAA26426@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: Question: Will FBSD use another Swap partition as well In-Reply-To: <357B7BDD.4CD1FD23@chalmers.com.au> from Robert Chalmers at "Jun 8, 98 03:51:25 pm" To: robert@chalmers.com.au Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 14:09:51 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Chalmers wrote: > or, is it necessary, or useful to put another swap partition on a second drive? > will it be used by the system? > > bob Sure, it will use it. It will interleave operations with the other drive's swap partition. This is mostly of benefit in SCSI systems. Dave -- DISCLAIMER: If it can be disclaimed, it is. DISCLAIMER: In particular, I don't represent any organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message