Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Liran Zvibel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 2. Putting the swap in several different disks does make the access time > faster, but this is not the issue of RAID. RAIDs are good for their > ability to continue working even though one of the disks is not working > anymore (the RAID3 keeps an extra di

Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Liran Zvibel
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > > Anyone care to explain why huge swap spaces should be spread across > multiple disks? I can understand the need for multiple partitions, as > swap partitions bigger than 128MB IIRC won't be able to use more than > 128MB of it, but why should the m

Re: 256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Mark Panzer
Christopher Barry wrote: > > The latest Debian install manual when addressing the need of how big you > need to make your swap partition says: > > "That still leaves the question of swap space. There are as many views > on how much swap you need as there are Unix administrators. One rule of > thu

256MB RAM systems can need 1GB swap... Re: Partitioning....

1998-08-13 Thread Christopher Barry
The latest Debian install manual when addressing the need of how big you need to make your swap partition says: "That still leaves the question of swap space. There are as many views on how much swap you need as there are Unix administrators. One rule of thumb which works well is to use as much sw