interleaved swap? (5.2.1)
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Jun 4 09:26:42 PDT 2004
In the last episode (Jun 04), Kris Kennaway said:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:10:19AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> > [shadow] 8:11:34am /var/log> swapinfo
> >
> > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
> > /dev/da0s1b 1048576 0 1048576 0%
> >
> > I noticed on some FreeBSD machines I see an entry like this:
> >
> > Type
> > Interleaved
> >
> > How come its missing?
>
> What are you going to interleave your one swap device with?
Actually there used to be a "Type" column in 4.x and earlier, which
would read "Interleaved" or "Sequential". The current code always
round-robins across all swap devices, so it's meaningless now.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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