Bob wrote:
It became obvious after a short while, that I had too little physical memory
(1GB), and I was using swap often. While swapping, things slowed down. So, I
added an additional 1GB of swap space (via swap file) on the secondary file
system. I did this as per the manual.
I now have
measurably. Does the swap
system take into account current disk activity when it decides to use a
particular swap?
that you need to use more than 2GB of swapspace on a machine with 1GB of
RAM, you should add more RAM, not more swapspace
It is on order.
The basis for my question about swap
with
1GB of
RAM, you should add more RAM, not more swapspace
It is on order.
The basis for my question about swap priority was based on an
observation that
the slowdown was due to swapping AND heavy disk usage. I noticed
that when
snapshots were being made on the main drive (the one I am
On Monday 02 October 2006 14:23, Charles Swiger wrote:
Well, you might try benchmarking the system with both arrays used for
swapping and with only the less-busy RAID array being used for
swapping, and see which one does better.
Yes, this is what I will do; if not benchmark, at least get a
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:31:47 -0400
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to be a pest, but how can I do what you suggest? My SWAP0 is a
_partition_ on the raid0 volume , and SWAP1 is a swapfile on raid1 created
as a Vnode; and activated in rc.conf by swapfile=/raid1/swap1
How can I tell
Hi:
OK, I have 2 swaps, one on the main raid (4 20GB hot-swap drives) 1/0 and
another on the secondary (2 20GB hot-swap drives) raid 1. All hardware raid
via dell PERC2 Controllers. This is on my personal work-station, which I am
now using multi-tasking more then I have ever done.
When I
