Bug 87295

Summary:	Giving users a tip about putting swap partition to outer disk
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Petteri Räty (RETIRED) <betelgeuse>
Component:	Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.

Reproducible: Always
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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.