From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTtzu-0003d6-FE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:45:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22F37E02E7; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007D0E02E7 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42389DED29 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:45:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3tTxM7veY6s5 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:13:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (78-32-181-186.no-dns-yet.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1116FDEC69 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:45:21 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts. Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:07:58 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <48A1034E.5030109@gmail.com> <200808121104.13155.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20080813225448.GM7990@aldous> In-Reply-To: <20080813225448.GM7990@aldous> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200808140907.58909.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: d59c23c3-1c08-43f7-818a-ce66c643dba2 X-Archives-Hash: bcd9b6845c4dcbcc6cf38b56e042484c On Wednesday 13 August 2008 23:54:48 Matthias Bethke wrote: > 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've read somewhere that for maximum speed you need to set equal priorities on the swap partitions in fstab, so that 'defaults' gets replaced with 'pri=1' (or some other number, as long as it's the same for all). > I have two 500G disks, mirrored in a software-RAID0 on all partitions > but swap which is on two separate 16G partitions. Similar to mine, apart from the sizes, but I also have a couple of IDE disks with swap partitions on them. -- Rgds Peter