From: ebrewer@science.smith.edu
Subject: re: Where to put my swap file (IDE or SCSI)
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In article <1993Apr28.160220.963@oracle.us.oracle.com> ebosco@us.oracle.com writes:
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>I have a 486 sx 25 and I recently added a SCSI drive to my system using an  
>Adaptec 1522 (non busmastering) controller. Yesterday I ran coretest to  
>find out drive performance and these are the values I got
>
>Seagate 106 Meg: 875.1kb/Sec	14.5ms avg seek   3.7ms track to track 
>Quantum 400 Meg SCSI: 991.2 Kb/sec  12.7 avg seek 3.6 track to track.
>
>First off all are these good results? I don't know what typical values  
>are.

Those are pretty typical, I believe.

>What I'm wondering now is the following. My swap file is currently on the  
>IDE. I could move it to the SCSI which is 13% faster, but then I would not  
>be able to use 32-bit access which might actuall make it slower. So on  
>which drive should I put my swap file to get best results? Is there a swap  
>file speed test program out there?

Keep the swap file on the IDE.  32-bit access is worth a fair amount more
than 13%.

