Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/09/14 12:15 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
I don't see much point in using RAID for a swap partition either.
If you lose swap on a running system, the system stops running. All my systems have swap-space on RAID1.
Isn't that true only for low memory systems actually using swap?
Yes, it's probably only true for systems that actually use swap, but that's not reserved for "low-memory" systems :-)
My 24/7 RAID1 system boots with swap enabled, but usually one of the first things I do after boot is swapoff -a. Dedicated swap on systems with ample RAM seems to me to be an anachronism.
Not at all. My server systems have beetween 4G and 16G of memory, all have and all use swap (even if just a tiny bit). My new office systems have 2Gb and use swap - the older boxes only had 1Gb, and also used swap. If for instance you've got lots of stuff in KDE that you never use (I can count quite a few processes that I have no idea what are for), they end up being swapped out permanently, and the memory is available for the part of the system that I actually use. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (19.2°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org