[vox-tech] Partitioning scheme

[Ehrhart, Jay]

Striping the swap file will improve performance since it is writing to
multiple disks at the same time.  Creating a swap partition on a striped set
is done in the setup using druid on Red Hat.  I am using RAID 0 without
parity.  I am most interested in performance that fault tolerance.  I will
use a backup for mail and the web site.

Jay Ehrhart
Yolo County Office of Education
530-668-3729
Ehrhart@ycoe.org <mailto:Ehrhart@ycoe.org> 


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Shawn P. Neugebauer [mailto:spn@ucdavis.edu]
		Sent:	Friday, August 02, 2002 10:11 AM
		To:	vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
		Subject:	Re: [vox-tech] Partitioning scheme

		On Friday 02 August 2002 09:51 am, Ehrhart, Jay wrote:
		[details removed]
		> swap	2 GB to allow for future memory installs

		size of the swap partition is not a big deal.  it's easy to
create a "swap 
		file," and it can be turned on/off whenever.  2G is not bad
for a server with 
		512M, anyway.

		i'm new to RAID stuff; does one take a performance hit
striping swap?
		is that even possible?

		shawn.


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