> If we were to interleave the swap and filesystem, the seek time would
> (for machines with one disk, at least) be reduced.
An interesting idea. You could simulate this by nearly filling up a
biggish partition near the middle of the disk and then making a swap file:
$ df -k
[ note that /home had 300M free ]
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/fill.tmp bs=1M count=230
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/new.swap bs=1M count=64
$ rm -f /home/fill.tmp
$ swapoff -a
$ mkswap -f /home/new.swap
$ swapon /home/new.swap
or similar.
Unfortunately, ext2 is a little too resistant to fragmentation for
this to work well, I suspect (although nearly filling up the disk
first helps).
Matthew.
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