Re: Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
There is no difference, really. All the DASD functions are rolled into one driver. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Wainwright, Oliver (Exchange) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 1:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using VDISK for swap Which is a better

Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread Wainwright, Oliver (Exchange)
Which is a better driver for a swap VDISK, the minidisk or dasd driver? *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account

Re: Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Which is a better driver for a swap VDISK, the minidisk or dasd driver? See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/linuxper.html There is a section Where should Linux swap? -Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061

Re: Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread Rich Smrcina
That very much depends on what problem you're trying to solve. VDISK is substantially faster that any of the others, but it is also a much more finite resource (when it is actually in use). The other benefit to VDISK is that it will be paged out and is much better than defining an artificially

Re: Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread Mark D Pace
I have recently move all my swap files from vdisk to xstorage. The biggest difference being that vdisk comes out of central storage, and xstorage does not. Helped me with other guests going to E3. And since I had 2GB xstorage it was the best place for it. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer

Re: Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread Rengasamy, Samy
-Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using VDISK for swap There is no difference, really. All the DASD functions are rolled into one driver. Hmm. The mdisk driver does do a couple

Re: Using VDISK for swap

2002-03-28 Thread David Boyes
There is no difference, really. All the DASD functions are rolled into one driver. Hmm. The mdisk driver does do a couple of things differently wrt to block handling and how it interacts with VM cache under the covers. I would agree that from the Linux perspective there is no difference.

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