Swap Optimization

[Mike Andrew]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 03:59, Net Llama wrote:

> There's always a possibility that your swap partition may never be used
> at all, depending on these other factors.  Realistically, if you're this
> concerned about disk performance, you should be using SCSI hardware, not
> IDE.

I echo both your comments llllllama. The chances are, that this backup box is 
i/o intensive. The probability is high that no other activity (applications) 
are allowed on this machine. If they are, the intent may be flawed. It sounds 
like a transaction server. In which case, swap is probably not used, or put 
more correctly, it aint swapped out. I'd wurri if it was.

Backup is only as good as it's recovery. Duplicating this system when it goes 
bang would be an 'interesting' experience. Scsi provides a more linear 
approach, and a future growth direction. While I too would use a first pass 
approach and install ide for evaluation, you can guess where I'd be heading 
right now.

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