Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:14:20 +0100 From: Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum swap no longer working. Message-ID: <20031229221420.GE12788@stderror.at> In-Reply-To: <200312290930.hBT9UDb6094894@soth.ventu> References: <200312290930.hBT9UDb6094894@soth.ventu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:30:14AM -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Can't help you, but I'm just curious... > What is the point in mirroring a swap partition? > Isn't this slowing the system down? - yes, this is a bug in 5.2. greg lehey is working on it (i think so) - mirroring swap _is_ useful because it's an backend store for memory pages. if you lose your swap partition and the kernel wants to page in, you or better the kernel will have a problem. haven't tried that but i think the machine will panic. hth, toni -- Kann man etwas nicht verstehen, dann urteile man | toni at stderror dot at lieber gar nicht, als dass man verurteile. | Toni Schmidbauer -- Rudolf Steiner | [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/8Kc8u/mjSj7RMocRAoL8AJ9hpnVatXVNYQ2p0zAFUrYLL9Ow6gCfbQKd BUCHlNUPsWGbApktHiNrXyY= =40UJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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