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They're talking about a swap partition, not a swap file. Filesystem allocation patterns are irrelevant for this.
by Scaevolus 5y ago
They're talking about a swap partition, not a swap file. Filesystem allocation patterns are irrelevant for this.
- toast0 5y agoFilesystem allocation patterns are relevant, one of the components of seek time is how far the heads have to seek. If most of the data is towards the front of the drive and your swap partition is towards the front of the drive, then the head will need to move less to get to the swap partition. If the data is towards the front and the partiton is near the end, then you would need to wait longer for the head to move, generally.
- mtdewcmu 5y agoYes. Thanks for explaining.