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From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@towiski.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:54:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080813225448.GM7990@aldous> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808121104.13155.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>

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Hi Peter,
on Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:04:13AM +0100, you wrote:
> You could always allocate another swap partition. One of my boxes has 4 2GB 
> partitions on different disks, though that's far more than I need.

You still get the benefit of automatic striping so if they're on
independent channels you have roughly four times the swap throughput.
I have two 500G disks, mirrored in a software-RAID0 on all partitions
but swap which is on two separate 16G partitions.

cheers,
	Matthias

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12  3:28 [gentoo-amd64] Symlinks vs. Bind mounts Juan Fco. Giordana
2008-08-12  4:45 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2008-08-12  7:52   ` Morgan Wesström
2008-08-12  8:18     ` Juan Fco. Giordana
2008-08-12  8:30       ` Beso
2008-08-12 14:38         ` Duncan
2008-08-12 15:05           ` Beso
2008-08-12 15:38             ` Wil Reichert
2008-08-13  1:37               ` Duncan
2008-08-12 15:40             ` Duncan
2008-08-25 10:16             ` Peter Volkov
2008-08-12 19:31       ` Matthias Bethke
2008-08-12  8:23     ` Beso
2008-08-12  9:22       ` Morgan Wesström
2008-08-12  9:29         ` Beso
2008-08-12 10:04         ` Peter Humphrey
2008-08-13 22:54           ` Matthias Bethke [this message]
2008-08-14  8:07             ` Duncan
2008-08-14 18:08               ` Richard Freeman
2008-08-14 20:37                 ` Matthias Bethke
2008-08-14 22:29                 ` Duncan
2008-08-14 20:25               ` Matthias Bethke
2008-08-14  8:07             ` Peter Humphrey
2008-08-15 14:16               ` Adam Mooz
2008-08-12 14:02       ` Duncan

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