headsup: swap_pager.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Aug 1 10:00:52 PDT 2003


In message <20030801165150.GA78091 at HAL9000.homeunix.com>, David Schultz writes:

>Aah, okay.  That's both a small improvement and a small regression
>in one.  The point of the static striping was to allow you to add
>swap devices and have them be automatically interleaved, so of
>course you can ``fix'' its limitations by removing it completely.

Well, I think it will for all practically purposes be better to
not stripe (using ccd) but use the round-robin allocation on the
individual components.  Doing that, adding another swap device
gets it "interleaved" with the rest just like before.

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