On 01 Mar 2002 14:26:40 +1100 Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess in a way that echoes my point Bill. It seems that on a 512MB > system, swap doesn't get hit significantly under any but the most > extreme circumstances. I would suggest if you want to cater to those > extreme scenarios, it would be better to have multiple swap partitions > spread over several disks. Anyway, as you note, disk is cheap. It just > grates on me to lock up an extra half gig or more. So I'll stick to my > 256MB and walk on the wild side! ;-) > > Brian *Several* disks...? I only ever see the first 2 used... :> # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 partition 248968 195904 -1 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 partition 1034216 320248 -2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 partition 130748 0 -3 Maybe the 128MB one is too wimpy... Pierre
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