[PLUG] Partitioning Schemes

Felix Lee flee at aracnet.com
Wed Jul 17 05:26:19 UTC 2002


"Michael Rasmussen" <rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com>:
> It's a significant optimization.  I used to work for a streaming video
> company and did some disk tests there to determine optimum disk layout and
> block size.  

Yes, but your problem is streaming video.  Typical disk
usage is not anything like that.  If your system is
streaming large amounts of data from your swap partition,
then you have other performance problems that probably won't
be helped much by moving your swap partition to a faster
disk cylinder.
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