From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 19: 8: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC0037B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:08:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15A043EB2 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:07:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h09398Ag002000; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 22:09:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E1CDB6F.3060502@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 21:16:15 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JacobRhoden Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: web write-up References: <98130130380.20030108095305@telus.net> <3E1CCBDD.9090209@crystal.com.au> <200301091255.39730.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG JacobRhoden wrote: > On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:09, Shaun Dwyer wrote: > >>is they probably didn't make seperate slices for /, /var and /usr. > > What difference does it make as to wether these partions are seperate. I > realise if you have more than one ide drive then having them on seperate > drives is alot better. On single drive machines I usually make only one > partion, what reasons are there to slice it? It makes a lot of difference. I don't remember the exact numbers, but the inside of the drive spindle transfers data noticably faster than the outside. Therefore, putting busy partitions (such as /var and /tmp) at the beginning of the drive can improve performance a good bit. Additionally (if you really want to crank up the throughput) you can format and mount partitions with options that better benefit their purpose (such as mounting noatime on a /tmp partition). So, proper partitioning CAN make a big difference in performance. Especially since the hard drive can _easily_ become the performance bottleneck on a server. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message