On 28/11/18 at 10:02, Rick Moen wrote:
> Swap files were common in Linux systems of the early '90s, but then fell
> out of use because swap partitions has a perfomance advantage. But
> then, someone found and fixed the performnce gap in the 2000s. Most
> admins just don't remember the option
Quoting Rod Rodolico (r...@dailydata.net):
> FWIW, I run several servers and I tried doing without swap a few years
> ago. I think it was Wheezy, but it may be even older. If memory serves
> me well, it was a couple of Xen DOM0's, and I was careful to allocate my
> DOMU's so that I had 8-12G of
FWIW, I run several servers and I tried doing without swap a few years
ago. I think it was Wheezy, but it may be even older. If memory serves
me well, it was a couple of Xen DOM0's, and I was careful to allocate my
DOMU's so that I had 8-12G of RAM just for the DOM0.
I ended up with some erratic
Quoting Erik Christiansen (dva...@internode.on.net):
> I'm still getting my head around the concept of having separate /var and
> then symlinking /var/spool back into /home. Admittedly, I do in effect
> something like that for mail, as procmail (invoked directly by postfix)
> dumps 99.9% of mail
On 27.11.18 22:28, Rick Moen wrote several juciy tips, including:
> (Depending on your system, you probably want to ensure that /var/lib
> and /var/spool are served from elsewhere, either separate filesystems
> of their own or symlinks to trees elsewhere /like to dirs under /home
> or some such.)
Quoting Erik Christiansen (dva...@internode.on.net):
> That leaves /var, which I've kept separate for three decades, to obviate
> the risk of furious rates of logging fatally depleting /. OK, it takes
> longer now, but the principle remains.
Tip (and one man's opinion):
On servers, I've long
Le 24/11/2018 à 22:41, Adam Borowski a écrit :
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 02:40:31PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
In my last install, I still had /tmp and /var on separate
partitions,
but I'm questionning the validity of such a
On 24.11.18 22:41, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 02:40:31PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > >
> > > In my last install, I still had /tmp and /var on separate partitions,
> > > but I'm questionning the validity of
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 02:40:31PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:47:42PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >
> > In my last install, I still had /tmp and /var on separate partitions,
> > but I'm questionning the validity of such a setup.
>
> It's useful to have /tmp on a
