[ILUG] best place for swap?

[Feargal Reilly]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 11:50:30 +0100 (BST)
Paul Reilly <paulr at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> Is there any concensus on where abouts on a disk to put your
> swap? Is best to make it the last partition, or stick it in the
> middle somewhere? Does it really matter? I have two identical
> machines, but one seems more sluggish than the other, and the
> only difference in the way they were built is that the swap on
> the slow one is way at the end of a 72 GB disk. Could this
> really be an issue?

[It] is important to remember that hard drives can transfer data
much more quickly from outer tracks than they can from inner
tracks.  To take advantage of this you should try to pack your
smaller filesystems and swap closer to the outer tracks, follow
with the larger filesystems, and end with the largest
filesystems.

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