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On Wednesday 13 August 2008 23:54:48 Matthias Bethke wrote: |
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> Hi Peter, |
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> on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:04:13AM +0100, you wrote: |
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> > You could always allocate another swap partition. One of my boxes has 4 |
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> > 2GB partitions on different disks, though that's far more than I need. |
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> You still get the benefit of automatic striping so if they're on |
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> independent channels you have roughly four times the swap throughput. |
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I've read somewhere that for maximum speed you need to set equal priorities |
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on the swap partitions in fstab, so that 'defaults' gets replaced |
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with 'pri=1' (or some other number, as long as it's the same for all). |
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> I have two 500G disks, mirrored in a software-RAID0 on all partitions |
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> but swap which is on two separate 16G partitions. |
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Similar to mine, apart from the sizes, but I also have a couple of IDE disks |
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with swap partitions on them. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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