Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:10:14 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu, "Marcel R. Wingate" <MWingate@cbm-wa.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrives & Filesystems Message-ID: <19990423151014.B253@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19990423104344.H91260@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:43:44AM %2B0930 References: <B704930A444AD111944F00600892E8A812AF0E@CBM-NT1> <199904222037.QAA19535@cc03du.unity.ncsu.edu> <19990423104344.H91260@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:43:44AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 April 1999 at 16:37:50 -0400, rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> >>
> >> I have 2 Harddrives in my system and would like some input as to how to
> >> allocate the file systems (/, /usr, /var, swap, etc)
> >>
> >> I have a 500Mb IDE Harddrive and a 2GB SCSI harddrive
> >> The system is a P90, 32Mb RAM (plan to go to 64Mb soon, so I want to have
> >> enough swap).
> >
> > Usually 1-2x is sufficient for swap, so use 128mb for swap.
>
> I'd recommend about 256 MB for swap. In view of the small first disk,
> I'd put about 64 MB on the first disk and 192 MB on the second disk.
> The ratio of main memory to swap is not so important, but you should
> have at least one swap partition slightly larger than main memory so
> that you can take crash dumps.
>
What is the benefit of splitting swap between the 2 disks? Why not
have one swap slice on one disk?
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