Best swap cylinders?

[Rodney Thayer]

Whatever.  If you need to have high performance get some real disks.  If
you're talking low-end system then the partitioning is more painful than
the swap issue, I suspect.

>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 97 16:13:00 -0000
>From: mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)
>Subject: Best swap cylinders?
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>Rodney Thayer wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:
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> RT> with a contemporary motherboard, why not buy a cheapo second
> RT> IDE drive and make it the second unit?
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>There is no advantage to this.  Unlike SCSI, the system is totally hosed when
>doing operations involving an IDE device.  As a result, the two IDE devices
>will simply alternate CPU usage.
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>The world runs Windows 95, where the operating system cannot make use of the
>free time even if the hardware provides it, so IDE incurs no penalty.  For
>Linux, NT, OS/2, or any other competent operating system, a far better and
>cheaper route to increased performance is to use SCSI.  One decent SCSI drive
>will outperform two cheap IDE drives.
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>-- Mike
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