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On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 vhamberg@attbi.com wrote: > Say you have a 6meg file. On a *nix swap partition it'll > be a continuous block of 6meg, right? On a 400, it'll > probably be in 6 1meg extents, on 6 separate drives. All > 6 will go to their extent at basically the same time, so > seek time is about the same, since it's in parallel. the > actual elapsed time to physically read the data off > disk, assuming the same rotational speed, is about 1/6th > that of the long, 6meg file on a single platter. In this case I agree. But is swap data that large? I don't really know. As the amount you read decreases the seek time becomes a bigger and bigger factor. Even 6MB is small enough that (if it is one file, not 3 2MB files) a single disk may outperform several because you only have to seek once instead of several times. This is interesting enough that I'm going to go bother the filesystem guys at SGI and see what they think... James Rich
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