[plug] Position of swap on single disk system.

[Bevan Broun]

I have read that swap should be close to the outside of the disk for
speed. I think I have also read that the middle of the disk is good so
the heads have less distance to travel. On a single disk worksation
system that regulary used signifcant swap, What is the best setup.

This is for my single disk, 40MB ram, 3.2GB drive, P200 system. 
With X, a few xterms and Netscape I use all my RAM. A gimp session will
be very heavy with swapping.

Im about to play with /dev/hda1

bevan at vincent>df -k
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5             101471   59963    36268     62%   /
/dev/hda7             491660  327783   138477     70%   /usr
/dev/hda8             686892  586661    64751     90%   /home
/dev/hda1            1041795  729934   258036     74%   /usr/local
/dev/hda9             390317   89722   280437     24%
/usr/local/CompressedPrograms
/dev/hda10            197324   47248   150076     24%   /fat1
bevan at vincent>mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /usr/local/CompressedPrograms type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda10 on /fat1 type vfat (rw,umask=0000)

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Bevan Broun                                           ph (08) 9380 1587
Computer Systems Officer                             fax (08) 9380 1065
Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering      
University of Western Australia                                 rm. G70