sounder 8, JS on Swap

[John]

Steve McIntyre wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 05:59:48PM +0800, John wrote:
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>>The S8 install is in progress, and I wish to comment on swap partitions.
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>>I tried without success to perusade the d-i folk that on most peecess 
>>(and like Macs and such) where the OS is being installed on a single 
>>disk, that a swap partition is a bad idea.
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>>Rather than repeat my argument here, see:
>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/08/msg00016.html
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>>No, I've not done benchmarks. It seems so clear to me I wonder that 
>>anyone would challenge my argument in that manner.
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>If you're going to claim performance advantages from one method over
>another, benchmarks are generally a good plan. What seems clear or
>obvious to one person is not _necessarily_ correct.
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Some argument about how necessarily dragging the heads over most of the
disk is quicker than instead of (likely) a small part of it is a good
starting-point.

I'd love to hear a well-reasoned argment about how the heads get from
the outer edge to the inner edge  than they get from the same starting
point to any point between.

If someone can make a coherent argument, then it's time to try it.