On 26 Mar 2002, Joe Landman wrote: > On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 10:15, Andrew Shewmaker wrote: > > Jeff Layton wrote: > > > > > Set multiple swap partitions to the same priority > > > > | > > /dev/sda2 none swap sw,pri=3 0 0 > > /dev/sdb2 none swap sw,pri=3 0 0 > > /dev/sdc2 none swap sw,pri=3 0 0 > > /dev/sdd2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 > > Almost... Set all the pri=0. Otherwise swap is not parallelized. If > one partition is set to pri=1, and the rest set to pri=3, swap will fill > the pri=1 up before attempting to use the pri=3 resources. > This isn't correct - pri can be any value between 0 and 32767 with 32767 being the highest priority. Swap is parallelised between any partitions with the same 'pri' value, ordered from highest to lowest. R. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Roger Michael Pettett Email: rmp@sanger.ac.uk Project Leader (Web Systems), Web: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ The Sanger Institute http://www.yourgenome.org/ Wellcome Trust Genome Campus http://www.ensembl.org/ Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SA +---------------------------------------------------------------+