On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:33:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Guy wrote: > > > I agree, but for a different reason. Your reason is new to me. > .. > > Loosing the swap disk would kill the system. > > if one is using swap space ... i'd add more memory .. before i'd use raid > - swap is too slow and as you folks point out, it could die > due to (unlikely) bad disk sectors in swap area This again is besides the point. As I said already swap is part of your virtual memory and if you can't keep it available you should not be using it. It is the same as saying that your machine will die if half its RAM suddenly ceased to exist while it was running. Your recommendations so far have been "don't run processes which might swap" and "don't let swap be used". If you yourself are able to keep to both of these 100% of the time may I ask why you yourself have any swap at all? ometimes) or those of us in the real world where swap is desirable and may (sometimes) be used, a swap device failure *will* *take* *the* *machine* *down*.
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