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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: genericuser on Jun 17, '05 11:41:04AM

What if I do have a second drive available but it's only a 5400 rpm drive. Am I bettter off with leaving the sawp file on the original drive (7200 rpm) ?



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Move swap to another partition, revisited again
Authored by: ChrisAllison on Jun 18, '05 03:26:35PM

Short Version: Keep it on the 7200 HDD.


Long version: While I'm not entirely sure what the protocol for drive-access is during heavy traffic (ie: if access to swap on a main drive would be delayed because of a high load of other process all attempting to access the drive at once), I'd be inclined to think that for most users, such access-conflicts would not be likely to occur.

That having been said, I'd advise keeping your swap partition on the fastest drive available to you. Swap is only employed (as I understand it, at least) when ram is unavailable. HDDs already have a much greater seek time than ram, slowing that further by moving your swap partition to a slower drive would only be shooting yourself in the foot.



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