Re: How many Hard Drives?

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From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:00

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Craig Irvine wrote:
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> In article <3213CE50.120EE92B@corona.iinet.net.au>, bakes@corona.iinet.net.au says...
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> >Putting half of each on two disks
> >will help to improve performance by sharing the IO load.
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> Only on a SCSI disk system as the SCSI controller is intelligent.
> 

Suppose I read something from a partition in the beginning of the disk,
and at the same time swap some pages out, to make room for the new
stuff,  onto swap partition in the end of the disk.  See the heads
jumping back and forth?  
So you can minimize heads movement -> access time by putting swap on
a different physical drive (in theory, at least.)
(Of course, SCSI is what one should use in a Unix workstation...)
-- 
Dimitri
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From: Dimitri Maziuk <emaziuk@alpha2.curtin.edu.au>
Subject: Re: How many Hard Drives?
Date: 1996/08/17
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