Subject: Re: multiple swap partitions
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/11/1999 04:02:31
On 10.11.99, 16:18:20, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:17:22 -0500 (EST) 
>  mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
>  > is it possible to have multiple swap partitions?  For example
>  > 
>  > /dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
>  > /dev/sd1b none swap sw 0 0

I used to have that for some time (not any more now that I have enough
RAM, so that I hardly ever need swap space), it may actually speed up
paging, because NetBSD uses all swap partitions interleaved.

>  > 
>  > in /etc/fstab?
>  > 
>  > does this make any sense?  I'm wanting to install on a system with 2
>  > very small disks.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>

-- 
Bernd Sieker

Unix, the solution to the W2k problem.