Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:26:12 -0400 From: Tom Embt <tom@embt.com> To: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SV: Disks...? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19991013162612.00a1f564@mail.embt.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991013153835.4940A-100000@spectre> References: <199910131652.JAA31298@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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At 03:45 PM 10/13/99 -0400, you wrote: > >Sort of on the subject, > >I've been wondering for the last little while whether it would be >beneficial to assign the swap partition to a separate disk - has anyone >tried this? If so, how did you find it affected system performance? >Common sense tells me that it would speed the system up, >especially if the swap disk is on a separate controller, >but common sense has been known to lie to me in the past. > > >M I'm by no means an expert, but... I think a common optimization is to split the swap space evenly among several or all of your disks. (Yes, swap can be on more than one disk) As for using a seperate controller, I think that is taking it a bit far. Unless you're already using the maximum amount of RAM for your motherboard/architecture, the money would be better spent on additional RAM. Ideally you shouldn't _be_ swapping very much. Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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