On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Vivek Kapoor wrote:
> On Wed 02 Dec 2009 09:39:03 PM IST, wahjava...@gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
> wrote:
>> There is no benefit in creating filesystem images on FS. All the accesses go
>> via filesystem layer. And since all you want is a contiguous disk space,
>> ha
On Wed 02 Dec 2009 09:39:03 PM IST, wahjava...@gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
wrote:
> There is no benefit in creating filesystem images on FS. All the accesses go
> via filesystem layer. And since all you want is a contiguous disk space,
> having a dedicated partition for it would be best. And as far a
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Vivek Kapoor writes:
> On 12/02/2009 06:54 AM, Narender wrote:
>
>> Raid 1 146GB partition
>> 33GB Swap File created on / (Note: the swap file was created when the
>> OS was built, so the hard drives were not full and they were very
>> empty)
>> Kern
On 12/02/2009 06:54 AM, Narender wrote:
Raid 1 146GB partition
33GB Swap File created on / (Note: the swap file was created when the
OS was built, so the hard drives were not full and they were very
empty)
Kernel 2.6
Swap file of 33 GB is huge. Also, on a RAID1, I think that'd lead to
perfor
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Narender wrote:
> I have done a lot of research, but I do not have any real world
> experience so I'm hoping you can help me understand the real world
> differences in performance. The research tells me that if you create a
> swap file on an empty disk and on a OS u
I have done a lot of research, but I do not have any real world
experience so I'm hoping you can help me understand the real world
differences in performance. The research tells me that if you create a
swap file on an empty disk and on a OS using kernel 2.6 then the
performance differences are mino
