On 15 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As my system is currently laid out, I'm not suffering from any shortage of > > swap _space_ (240MB allocated, max seen in use is 33MB), I'm merely trying > > to sneak out the best possible performance without spending a buck. > > In the end I imagine you'll be much happier if you scrounge for more > RAM, but you probably already knew that... > > > I think I'm just having trouble using a swapfile on a md array, as opposed > > to a pathname problem. Any ideas would, of course, be gladly accepted. > > I'm not sure I understand your problem, but I'll be happy to help if I > can. We have machines here using /dev/md0 as swap. Is that roughly > what you are trying to accomplish? > > Here's the mdtab. > > # mdtab entry for /dev/md0 > /dev/md0 raid0,4k,0 /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 > # mdtab entry for /dev/md1 > /dev/md1 raid0,4k,0 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdb3 > # mdtab entry for /dev/md2 > /dev/md2 raid0,4k,0 /dev/hda4 /dev/hdb4
You don't wan't to have your swap partitions on an MD device. The kernel already stripes over all available swap partitions. Using MD just wastes CPU cycles. Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .