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Best swap cylinders?

Subject: Best swap cylinders?
From: jmt at NDA.COM (John Twilley)
Date: 23 Oct 1997 23:47:56 -0400
References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.971023193842.21650B-100000@helm.bbnplanet.com>

Hrm.  My ideal preference for swap would be in the middle.

/dev/hda1 45% of the drive 
/dev/hda2 10% of the drive <--- swap
/dev/hda3 45% of the drive

With the theory that the seek time would be minimized on average iff
the system spent time equally in each of the other partitions.

Jack.
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References:
- Best swap cylinders?
  - From: cyoung at bbnplanet.com (Chuck Young)

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