From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 17:04:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01119 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01113 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman.concentric.net [207.155.184.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/04/23 5.10)) id UAA21908; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:04:03 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager.concentric.net [206.173.119.82]) by newman.concentric.net (8.8.8) id UAA23496; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:04:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:04:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@voyager.cris.com To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Swap space. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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