From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: swapping to a second HD. Better or worse? Date: 1 Jun 1992 00:55:12 GMT
In article <1992May30.163005.25590@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>I just purchased a second HD, which I'll devote entirely to Linux
>(sure it's a free OS, but now I have to buy a second HD, and probably
>an SVGA monitor....). It seems to me that I'll get better performance
>if I put the swap partition on one HD, and Linux on the other. That
>way, the Linux drive won't seek as much. Is there something I'm not
>seeing? Is this a good idea?
This is correct. A dedicated swap disk can speed things up.