I'm all for adding a cheap IDE multi-gig drive and setting aside a portion exclusively fo swap.
Can you refresh my memory on which partition is considered "inside" versus "outside" when looking at it through the Disk Utility? When you specify 2 or more partitions and looking at the "Untitled 1", "Untitled 2", etc., what is the correct order?
Cheers.
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Originally posted by sinebubble
You know, if you think about the geometry of a disk, it seems to me that it would make sense to put your swap partition on the first cylinders. Most people do not fill up even 25% of their disk, so the heads spend most of their time in that particular portion of the disk. Putting your swap on the outside cylinders means the arms have to sweep across the disk to access swap and then back to read data.
Thoughts? |