On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:03:44 -0600, "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/8/06, Doncho N. Gunchev <gunchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The machine will boot fine, just will not have swap at all. Why not use two > > swap partitions instead of one RAID-0? This way at least one of them will > > work (if one disk is gone). > > Personally, I agree with avoiding RAID 0 for any reason (my personal > preference). However, I can understand a desire to use it for swap in > order to force the kernel to use both spindles when swapping, > increasing the performance of swap. I don't know if the vm system in > Linux has improved to the point where it will balance multiple swap > partitions or not, but it used to be that the kernel would use the > first swap partition exclusively until it was full before taking > advantage of the second and subsequent partitions. I think if you are really concerned about how fast processes swap, you need to buy more memory, not speed up swapping to disk.
