On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 06:31, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
We have our mail servers at work with /var/spool as slice 0 and the preformance increase was dramatic so I figured that I would put /opt as slice 0 on my home machine when I did the fresh install of 8.2 to just to see if it would make a difference. I see quite a difference. Although I don't know if it's that in combination with using ext3 this time instead of ReiserFS. I may partition as I use to do when I install 8.2 at work and see if it's putting /opt as slice 0 or the use of ext3 that gave such a speed increase. Should be interesting.
If you do not mind the danger of losing data in a crash situation, your
/opt filesystem could use XFS. The risk of losing things if your system
crashes might be outweighed by the dramatic performace increase you
should see there. And since /opt rarely has anything written to it once
you have done your install, that might not be a problem.
Also, if you are using a journaled file system, if you can put your
journal on another disk, you should see a performace boost as well.
Rgds,
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Anders Karlsson