Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 10:14:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu, "Marcel R. Wingate" <MWingate@cbm-wa.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Harddrives & Filesystems Message-ID: <19990424101403.C97757@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990423151014.B253@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 03:10:14PM %2B0100 References: <B704930A444AD111944F00600892E8A812AF0E@CBM-NT1> <199904222037.QAA19535@cc03du.unity.ncsu.edu> <19990423104344.H91260@freebie.lemis.com> <19990423151014.B253@marder-1>
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On Friday, 23 April 1999 at 15:10:14 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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? Performance. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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