Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:45:38PM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Hello Walter, Have you read Karsten Koehntopps Partitioning HowTo? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Walter L. Preuninger II ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme ... > Which example gives the best performance. None of the above. Put it on a separate drive. If it's IDE, make that a master with no slave, too. > Does 2.2 do elevator seeking Dunno

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya walter good question ... - anybody measued any of the partition schemes ?? am assuming "a" is the outer tracks "d" is the inner tracks... -- swap should be NOT an issue... if you sustain constant 32Mb or 64Mb or 128Mb of swap space usage ADD that much more memory !!!

Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-25 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Example A space a b swap(center of drive) c d Example B a b swapc d Example C a b c

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-17 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:56:51PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I > set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap > partition would be used first -- Somehow, I don't think this matters > since they are b

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:34:40PM -0800, Michael J. Micek wrote: > If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? > /var/local/swap0? That's what I did (more or less). I also have a swap partition, but I set the priority for the swap file in /etc/fstab so the dedicated swap partiti

Re: Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread iehrenwald
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael J. Micek wrote: > If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? > /var/local/swap0? On a very fast drive (7200RPM U2WSCSI or faster) seperate from all other filesystem tasks. Mount it under /swapfiles and add the apropriate entries in fstab. Don't for

Swap file location

2001-03-16 Thread Michael J. Micek
If you needed to create a swap file, where would you put it? /var/local/swap0? -- Michael J. Micek, CyberStrategies, Inc. sysadmin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]