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