RE: Mirroring swap

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On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:30, Gordon Henderson wrote:
[snip]
> So now with important machines which had mirrored or RAIDed disk systems,
> I always put swap on a mirrored or RAID5d device.

Swap on RAID 5 is going to have pretty poor performance, in general. 
Swap needs to be both high bandwidth and low latency, both for reading
and writing.  RAID 5 just isn't that.
	Greg.

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