Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:45:38PM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Hello Walter, Have you read Karsten Koehntopps Partitioning HowTo? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-25 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Example A space a b swap(center of drive) c d Example B a b swapc d Example C a b

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya walter good question ... - anybody measued any of the partition schemes ?? am assuming a is the outer tracks d is the inner tracks... -- swap should be NOT an issue... if you sustain constant 32Mb or 64Mb or 128Mb of swap space usage ADD that much more memory !!! --

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Walter L. Preuninger II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme ... Which example gives the best performance. None of the above. Put it on a separate drive. If it's IDE, make that a master with no slave, too. Does 2.2 do elevator seeking Dunno.

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap partition would be used first -- Somehow, I don't think this matters since they are both

Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Michael J. Micek
If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? -- Michael J. Micek, CyberStrategies, Inc. sysadmin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote: If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other filesystem tasks. Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate entries in fstab. Don't

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:34:40PM -0800, Michael J. Micek wrote: If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap