On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 23:08, Paul Braman wrote:
> On Thu, 8 May 2003 cpace@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>
> > First, I noticed that you put the swap partition last and I have seen
> > this before. I was always under the impression it was better to put
> > it first because if you utilize swap, you want the seek/search to be
> > as fast as possible and therefore would put it in the beginning of the
> > partition.
>
> You're most likely going to use the swap partition very little. If you're
> using it heavily that means you are running out of physical memory.
>
Hey Paul:
A minor thing -- swap is actually useful even if your apps fit easily
within physical memory. The kernel will page out dormant processes to
swap and reclaim the memory for buffers and cache. This way RAM is being
better utilized.
-- Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com>
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