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>
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Bernd Sieker
Unix, the solution to the W2k problem.