Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What kind of performance do you get with your md devices? Haven't really paid close attention. > It seems to me (operating in a vacuum not knowing what other disks > you have) that you'd do better by shifting your hdb (primary slave > IDE disk) to hdc (

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
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 sp

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Michael Neuffer
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 spe

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
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 m

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
On 15 May 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You can stripe swap without using md - the kernel does it for you > ever since Linux 1.3.2 :) > > Read the "swapon" manpage, option "-p". The kernel may allocate pages on a round-robin basis, but I'd like to tuck my swapspace into my md disk for b

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm having some difficulty creating "special" swapfiles to be able to test >> swapping to/from an "md" device (raid0). I've followed the manpage hints > >You must give the full