In article <Xns94F655C26E01Draf256com@203.29.75.35>, "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" 
<spa### [at] raf256com> wrote:

> Linux has much better memory/swap managment, if You have two phisical HDDs,
> You can put them on different HDD controllers and create swap partition on
> both, and configure system to interlace swap between both drivers with
> would create something like RAID array for SWAP and increase performace up
> to 50%

Actually, it (RAID 0) will gain little to nothing for a swap partition
because what matters for a swap partition is the seek time of the disk it is
on.  It certainly will not gain anywhere near 50%.  More like 5% if you are
really lucky.

Only is you need plenty of read and write disk access for large blocks of
data (i.e. a server or video storage for editing) you will benefit from RAID
0.  Or if you need to store very large data sets and have no other means to
create a single partition (very unlikely these days).  And even then you
would probably not use RAID 0, but rather RAID 1 or more likely RAID 5.

    Thorsten

____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

Post a reply to this message