[ale] swap

Michael Snow msnow at bellsouth.net
Tue Nov 16 04:26:30 EST 1999


The answer is define fstab with pri=1 for both drives.  Now my old 133Mhz 
box with only 24 mb memory is little faster and I only spent some time
thinking.. Thanks to all for their ideas.....






On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Clay Lawrence wrote:
> Yeah, but I bought mine before it went up :-)
> 
> Clay
> 
> jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:
> > 
> > Habe you seen the price of ram recently ?
> > 
> > Clay Lawrence wrote:
> > 
> > > >From someone with 512mb of ram, more memory is much better ;-p
> > >
> > > Clay
> > >
> > > Steven Rice wrote:
> > > >
> > > > root wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I just installed another small disk and put additional swap on it.  I want to
> > > > > have swap interleave on the primary and secondary swap.  Both swaps are
> > > > > the same size and set at priority -1.  man(2) swap does not really answer my
> > > > > question; or I can't see the forest for the trees...  Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > This is just me but if I have to use more then 128 megs of
> > > > swap,  I rather buy more memory then use more hard drive
> > > > space.  Plus hitting the hard drive is so slow.






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