> The fact that you mention you are using partitions on disks that > possibly have other partions doing other things, means raw performance > will be compromised anyway. > > Regards, > > Richard You know I never thought about it, but you are absolutely right. The times at which my memory usage peaks coincide with high disk activity (mostly reads). In this light it actually might be better to keep the swap in a file on my raid10 (-p n3) which occupies most of these 4 drives, and hope that the md code will be able to distribute the io across idle drives. Does this sound about right? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
