From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 7:17:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA30150D0 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 07:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10agiu-000OU1-0C; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 14:14:33 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id PAA01260; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:14:24 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id PAA00425; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:10:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:10:14 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Greg Lehey Cc: rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu, "Marcel R. Wingate" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrives & Filesystems Message-ID: <19990423151014.B253@marder-1> References: <199904222037.QAA19535@cc03du.unity.ncsu.edu> <19990423104344.H91260@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990423104344.H91260@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 10:43:44AM +0930 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message