Re: Raid 0 Swap?

[Bodo Eggert]

Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Marc Perkel wrote:
>> If I have two drives and I want swap to be fast if I allocate swap spam
>> on both drives does it break up the load between them? Or would it run
>> faster if I did a Raid 0 swap?

Swap has priorities, and it will do something like striping if two swap spaces
have the same priority.

[...]
> Ie, your swap space must be reliable.  At least not worse than your memory.

It's mostly enough if it's as reliable as the system disk.

> And with striping, you've much more chances of disk failure...

It won't increase because of using striping, but because of the amount
of disks used.
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