** Package changed: ubuntu = debian-installer (Ubuntu)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/821728
Title:
Increasing hdd performance: Swap partition should be at the beginning
of the
I think these claims need to be backed up by quantitative data. The
relative position of a swap partition might have been an important
factor 10 years ago on slow hard disks in computers with little RAM.
However, with most modern PCs shipping with at least 4GB RAM and fast
hard disks with 32MB
** Summary changed:
- Creating the swap partition at the beginning of the hard disk drive
+ Increasing hdd performance: Swap partition should be at the beginning of the
hard disk drive
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You hardly every use swap on normal machines nowadays, and if you do 30% more
throughput will hardly improve anything.
Its probably preferable to have the os and applications in the fast section to
increase boot speed.
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This is true but the application- and system files will only slowdown if
they are behind the 20%-25%. Even if this happens the slowdown will be
only small because the files are moved only a little percentage to an
inner disk position (where the relative position of the disk is still
fast) and not
