On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, neuroticimbecile wrote:
> Quoting Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 at 11:16, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
> > >then we set our swap at the end of each of the disks. our rule of thumb
> > >here is (for main memories < 512MB)
> >
> > Just a note, AFAIK the beginning of a drive is normally faster than the
> > end. I would then put my swap right after /boot, so that it's fastest
> > just in case.
>
> ... not if the heads are coming from the edge of the disks. some
> people put their swap right smak in the middle, so it's always "along
> the way" when the heads go back and forth across the disk.
>
hmmm... not bad at all. so theoretically, the head will just have to
travel around 1/2 of the disk. You could put the most accessed
filesystems in the middle part of the drive. I checked out ZCAV but it
looks like the reading is done sequentially, and the does not compensate
the time taken by moving the heads around.
hmm... if i could only just afford solid state drives, then this won't be
a problem anymore. ;)
regards,
-mark
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