Swap Optimization

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

You can get some ideas from one of the HD How-to's (www.linuxdoc.org).
IIRC it was "hard disk partitioning HowTo".


On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:39:40 -0600, Jason Joines wrote:

>     Mainly I was just curious as to whether the fact that the drive was 
>on a separate contorller would override the fact that it is a slower 
>ATA-33 drive.
>
>     I do have that many drives requiring that many controllers.  The 
>motherboard has 2 ATA-100 controllers and 2 ATA-133/RAID controllers.  
>In addition, there are two add on ATA-100/RAID cards with four 
>controllers each.
>
>     The machine is being used to do backups over a couple of 100 Mbit 
>networks using multiple NICs..  I have a bunch of 80 GB ATA/100 drives 
>in removable drive carriers.  The two adaptec cards are used to keep 2 
>four drive raid 5 arrays.  Weekly and Monthly backups are written to 
>this.  The onboard raid is used for the OS, and daily backups.  It is 
>configured as a mirrored raid with a small partition for the OS and the 
>rest for the dailies.  I have 1 GB of DDR RAM.
> 
>     We used IDE because it is much less expensive than SCSI and much 
>better performance than tape.
>
>     I ended up with an extra bay in the case and unused spots on the 
>controllers so I just thought it might help to throw an extra drive in 
>dedicated to swap.
>
>
>Jason Joines
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