From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 23 08:26:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA16626 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [207.170.114.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA16621 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.8.7/8.8.6) id KAA14200; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:26:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19970923102645.60062@pmr.com> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:26:45 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: chat list Subject: Re: Linux faster thasn FreeBSD Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 09:18:38AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 09:18:38AM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Paul Griffith wrote: > > > > > Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com > > > > So I should use the SCSI HD as my swap space ? What basic fine tuning > > would you suggest ? > > > I suggest you rebuild the kernel and use the memory filesystem (mfs) as > swap disk. If it's your personal box (not many users) this won't give any > problem. This sounds awfully circular (and dangerous) to me. What happens when the mfs daemon needs to page out something? Does the system fail? Is the failure gracefull? -- Bob Willcox Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread bob@luke.pmr.com to determine which side it is buttered on. Austin, TX -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"