Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:04:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Swap space. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980510195852.14580H-100000@voyager.cris.com>
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I am very seriously considering, for performance reasons, to run the swap partition on a separate physical drive. It just seems like a good idea to me. I have an old Caviar 400MB IDE drive explicitely set aside for the swap partition. It still screams along fairly well and if I put it on the second IDE controller then traffic going to and from swap won't get bound up with traffic going to and from the main drive. Am I thinking correctly? And is 400 MB of swap space just TOO obscene for a 64MB RAM system? Pitfalls? I chose 400 MB simply because that's the size of my extra drive...I don't OWN a smaller drive. If no one knows, I will be glad to run some comparisons...it's going to be "just" a workstation, though...not much network throughput at all. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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