Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:17:31 -0400 From: bob self <bobself@charter.net> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap file using gmirror? Message-ID: <42FE1D1B.6090407@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <42FB7246.9090908@netfence.it> References: <42FB4312.7040201@charter.net> <42FB7246.9090908@netfence.it>
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Andrea Venturoli wrote: > bob self wrote: > >> I'm running 5.4 RELEASE. I have two identical hard drives. I >> installed FreeBSD on the first drive and then >> turned on gmirror. The 2nd drive sync'd in about 3 hours. I did >> create a swap partition, but part of the >> procedure that I found to start gmirror adds >> >> swapoff="YES"' to /etc/rc.conf >> >> Is that the right thing to do? Should gmirror run without swap? > > > You are interpreting it incorrectly. > If you put your swap partition on a gmirror drive, your swap partition > will benefit from RAID 1. > swapoff="YES" only allows for a clean shutdown, so that gmirror won't > rebuild everything on next boot. > > bye > av. > > So, is there swap space somewhere? What if I run out of RAM? thanks, Bob
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