On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:42, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
If you lose your swap drive during machine uptime, most likely the machine will crash. Hence one benefit of putting swap on RAID is increased fault tolerance, although with software RAID you do have to balance that with a slight decrease in performance.
I have lost swap drives in the past. Ran half a week without noticing. Some processes died when they could not swap stuff back IN. But the machine ran fine since (as is normally the case) swap was used very little. If one insists on mirroring swap its best to get one of those hardware raid controllers which eliminated the need for software raid and often the OS is totally unaware it has a raid. Those things are rally cheap these days ($30) if all you want is raid 1 mirroring. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen