On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 16:05, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > Wondering what views are out there regarding the benifits in performance, if any, in > specifying the swap partition to be on a different physical disk from the / > partition? >
I've always set my SWAP to be on a different physical partition - and if it's a high-traffic server, I set the /home on a completely seperate drive, the /tmp on a partition on a drive that ain't with the SWAP or the OS proper, and the /var on another physical drive. Load balancing. That's how *nix was designed from the beginning. Works like a champ with literally any OS - OS/2, Winders, Mac, BeOS, linux - so by having the OS on one physical spindle, and the SWAP on another physical spindle, and the /tmp (and others) on another physical spindle, you get the best performance overall. Really nice when you have the ability to work with SCSI for this as well... Currently, my home setup for this beastie has hd0 - /boot and / (25gb outta 40gb - Winders is on the remaining bit) hd1 - SWAP and /var (700mb for swap, the rest to 40gb for /var) sda1 - /tmp (4.3gb SCSI) sdb1 - /home (18gb SCSI) hdc - CD/DVD hdd - CDRW ...it flies...now when I had it ALL on the one partition - when I was first setting up this box and testing the equipment, it was far behind the current performance levels - but that was only for testing until I had gotten familiar enough with the box and had a strategy for laying out the partitions and drives... But, that's IMHO - others may think differently - or I hope they think differently...(g) -- Mon Mar 17 17:10:00 EST 2003 17:10:00 up 11:23, 3 users, load average: 0.72, 0.53, 0.33 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Eisenhower!! Your mimeograph machine upsets my stomach!! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
