On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:46, Dave Lists wrote:
Hi, I have a machine booting off IDE RAID. /dev/md0 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdc2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
What I'm wondering is can I convert my dual swaps to one single RAIDed swap?
Dave.
Why would you want to do that? Raid is slower than regular ide because of the need to sync the drives. Raiding your swaps will simply slow you down. Before you waste any time on this, evalate just how much of the time you are useing swap. With just a half meg of memory and vmware running my system still shows virtally no swap useage at all: jsa@pen:~> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 514152 507196 6956 0 28532 187704 -/+ buffers/cache: 290960 223192 Swap: 1028120 4936 1023184 Swap does not have to be persistant so why waste the cycles raiding it up? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen