On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:33:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > 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 ... > Your recommendations that'd be your comment ... that is not whati said above and all i said, was use memory before you use swap on disks and if you are at the 2GB lmit of your mb ... you obviously don't have a choice - if you are using 128MB of memory and using 2GB of swap and bitching about a slow box or system crashing due to swap... - that was the point ... add more memory - and i don't think anybody is idiotic enough to add more memory for the "spikes" in the workload > 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? you're twisting things again... but no problem.. have fun doing that > 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*. my real world is obviously better .... since we do NOT suffer from these mysterious disks crashes we go to fix peoples problems c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
