Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:56:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Andrew Short <Ashort@concentric.net>, FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Swap space. Message-ID: <19980511105643.L7546@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980510195852.14580H-100000@voyager.cris.com>; from Andrew Short on Sun, May 10, 1998 at 08:04:03PM -0400 References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980510195852.14580H-100000@voyager.cris.com>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998 at 20:04:03 -0400, Andrew Short wrote: > > 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? No, it depends on your usage. I often use in excess of 200 MB of swap on a (currently) 96 MB machine. > Pitfalls? About the only thing I can think of would be if the drive isn't as fast as you think it is. I suppose the obvious question is: do you need the extra performance? How much swapping do you do? How much swap are you using? How much file activity do you have? Depending on the load, you might find it better to use the Caviar for a file system. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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