> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:595] Re: LFS progress #3 (the last one, i 
> promise... )
> 
> 
> Justin Bengtson wrote:
> 
> > will the double paging bandwidth still hold true if both 
> hard drives are on
> > the same ide channel?  if so, i'll definitely do that.  
> otherwise, i don't
> > see a need.
> 
> Actually, I'm not sure.  Instead, I'll recommend that you move your
> second disk to the other IDE controller. (-:  /dev/hdc.

sorry.  i already have two cdroms on that channel.  it get's really
complicated if i move a cdrom and a hard drive onto the same channel.  not
hardware-wise, but organizationally it looks grim (look out, huge,
meaningless words!!!).  which hard drive will i be burning from the most,
which hard drive will i be installing to the most, things like that.  the
current arrangement keeps things simple.

i'll probably end up ditching both of those drives when i get a new
motherboard.  i'm planning on a dual t-bird system when tax returns come in
and that'll probably mean an ATA100 IDE bus.  upgrade opportunities galore.

> If you ever have more than one process paging heavily, then you should
> get lower seek latencies with two swap disks on the same IDE.

ok.  i'll give it a try then.  thanks for the suggestion.

> > it'd probably run just fine on 10mb of swap
> 
> Well, yeah... (-:
> 
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> Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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