Re: SWAP priority

2006-10-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
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

Re: SWAP priority

2006-10-02 Thread Bob
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

Re: SWAP priority

2006-10-02 Thread Charles Swiger
On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Bob wrote: On Monday 02 October 2006 09:14, Chuck Swiger wrote: The swap system knows how to interleave data between the additional swap areas relatively efficiently, Yes I discovered that. The additional swap space was instantly used as soon as I activated it;

Re: SWAP priority

2006-10-02 Thread Bob
On Monday 02 October 2006 09:14, Chuck Swiger wrote: > The swap system knows how to interleave data between the additional swap > areas relatively efficiently, Yes I discovered that. The additional swap space was instantly used as soon as I activated it; and the added swap improved things measu

Re: SWAP priority

2006-10-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
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 mor