Hi
Ok - I understand what you are meaning; I think we have just different
opinions towards lifetime of a harddrive.
Maybe, I will go on using only one disk for swap - but it is interesting
seeing other opinions concerning lifetime of a hdd and security.
Greetings, Dietmar
Luca Berra wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:26:53PM +0200, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > At work we got much HP-Workstations and -Servers; everyone got a
> > swap-partition which is of same size as physical memory (or even
> > bigger).
> hp-ux uses swap partitions as a dump device, something i'd love
> to see on linux systems sooner or later.
>
> anyway some swap space may be needed since there are process that allocate
> tons of virtual memory, and they don't use it.
> if the machine swaps occasionally i think it is acceptable
> if i have to use swap i wan't it on a raid device.
>
> L.
>
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