Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:59:32 +0200 From: Mirror Beastie <rudi@askas.co.za> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: request for confirmation of swapspace addition and some other qs Message-ID: <365AC9CE.D27AB567@askas.co.za>
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hi
I recently had to add some swap to my 3.0-RELEASE machine and did the
following :
1) added an old 270mb ide hdd to the same cable as the existing ide hdd
2) used /stand/sysinstall to create and define whole 270 mb hdd as swap
3) edited /etc/fstab to include it as swap
4) also made vn0 device but i think this is irrelevent as it is only
required
for swap files ?
5) ran numerous mirrors and browsers and other hungry things to see how
it
would handle a heavy load - things seem to work - slowly but no more
swap errors.
My questions are :
0) this is not what the faq advised - but is it a problem ?
1) did i do this correctly ?
2) is the slow speed only due to ratio of real mem to swap (20mb/307mb)
? on a dx4/100
3) if i put the ide hdds on separate cables will this speed things up
(assuming
the mb supports it) ?
thanks in advance
any additional advice ?
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