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From: Fredrik Eriksson
Subject: Re: Preferred operating system for intensive PovRay use
Date: 27 May 2004 18:46:17
Message: <opr8oj7qwucs6ysw@news.povray.org>
On 27 May 2004 02:27:02 -0400, 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% (especialy on serial ATA or better SCASII drivers).


WinXP can also do that, and will in fact do so automatically if you  
allocate swap space on more than one physical drive.


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FE


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