Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:52:23 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Johan_Str=F6m?= <johan@stromnet.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC? Message-ID: <451798C7.7040301@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <D4948640-AE7A-43B8-B997-EA7BECE5DAE4@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> References: <C8AEA7B4-3E12-43A7-A618-F35E74C1511C@stromnet.org> <118EDA90-D7D7-4A07-B7D2-3710384308D1@stromnet.org> <D5A683ED-67D0-4E2E-BE0C-E34812F9B52E@stromnet.org> <955CD271-C649-4423-848C-42912C5134A2@stromnet.org> <D4948640-AE7A-43B8-B997-EA7BECE5DAE4@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
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Alban Hertroys wrote:
> Besides that, it is probably not a very good idea to mirror your swap. I
> am certain it is bad for performance, if it'd gain you reliability is
> beyond my knowledge. This has been discussed before, you probably want
> to check the archives.
On the contrary, it is a very good idea indeed to mirror the swap partition
if your aim is to make your machine resilient against disk failure. Losing
the swap will kill a machine just as dead as losing a filesystem. The
performance of a mirrored root drive is a bit slower on write but generally
faster on read -- it tends to pretty much even out in the end.
Cheers,
Matthew
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