Re: [Sheflug] A New Linux Box

[Gary Martin <gary.martin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:02 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 27 October 2008 17:50:23 Adam Funk wrote:
> > And when swap is being used for this too, it's no slower than /tmp/* on
> > disk would be anyway?
> 
> Also true, or so I assume.
> 
> > To do this, how much extra swap needs to be allowed?
> 
> This is one of those how-long-is-a-piece-of-string questions. I have four 
> 2GB partitions allocated to it, but I'm sure a quarter of that would be 
> plenty for my use. I just have one partition on each physical disk for 
> simplicity, and put pri=1 in the options column in fstab, thus:
> 
> /dev/sda2   none        swap    sw,pri=1        0 0
> 
> HTH.
> 

It does sound like a neat way of creating a flexible solution and
presumably the swap partitions on multiple disks should make it faster
than a normal /tmp partition, even if it is all in swap. Is that right
too?

I was wondering what the behaviour would be when you become effectively
low on memory though. I think I'll be getting more memory and a bigger
hard disk!

Cheers,
	Gary


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