87295 – Giving users a tip about putting swap partition to outer disk

Bug 87295 - Giving users a tip about putting swap partition to outer disk

Summary: Giving users a tip about putting swap partition to outer disk

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-user
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

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Reported:	2005-03-30 09:22 UTC by Petteri Räty (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-04-02 10:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-30 09:22:13 UTC

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=143&var2=18

So having the swap space as hda2 after a small boot partition could get a little bit more performance out of computers, which need to use the swap partition often. I suggest this would be added to the handbook chapter 4.b. Designing a Partitioning Scheme.

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Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-03-30 09:28:52 UTC

This isn't actually true on modern drives that do all kinds of fancy relocation tricks, nor does it take into account the excess seeking this can cause.

Comment 2 Xavier Neys (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-02 10:25:53 UTC

Agreed.