[ILUG] best place for swap?

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Paul Reilly 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?

My tendency'd be to stick it in the middle of the disk, to minimise
worst case seek time to swap. However, often its simpler just to 
create a swap partition before or after root partition at beginning 
of disk.
 
For multi-disk setups i create a RAID1 array for swap.

> Paul

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