mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@mwaikambo.name>
Cc: Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lilo/raid?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:33:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207021333.36435.roy@karlsbakk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D216157.FC60B17E@aitel.hist.no>

On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:16, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults       
> > > 1 1 /dev/md2                /tmp                    ext3    defaults   
> > >     1 2 /dev/md3                /var                    jfs    
> > > defaults        1 2 /dev/md4                /data                   jfs
> > >     defaults        1 2 /dev/md1                swap                   
> > > swap    defaults        0 0
> >
> > One small thing, you do know that you can interleave swap?
>
> There are sometimes reasons not to do that.
> Heavy swapping may be caused by attempts to cache
> massive io on some fs.  
<snip/>

I've seen it. 1GB of swap for caching heavy downloads (se earlier thread 'VM 
fsckup' or somehting)

What is the reason of using swap for cache buffers?????

roy

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-02 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-01 14:04 lilo/raid? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-01 15:52 ` lilo/raid? Bill Davidsen
2002-07-01 16:02   ` lilo/raid? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-01 18:36     ` lilo/raid? Bill Davidsen
2002-07-01 15:59 ` lilo/raid? Andries Brouwer
2002-07-01 16:15   ` lilo/raid? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-01 15:59     ` lilo/raid? Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-02  8:16       ` lilo/raid? Helge Hafting
2002-07-02  9:12         ` lilo/raid? Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-02 10:26           ` lilo/raid? jw schultz
2002-07-02 10:28           ` lilo/raid? Jakob Oestergaard
2002-07-02 11:33         ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [this message]
2002-07-03  9:43           ` lilo/raid? Helge Hafting
2002-07-03 10:02             ` lilo/raid? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-02 11:27       ` lilo/raid? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-01 16:05 ` lilo/raid? Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
2002-07-01 16:07   ` lilo/raid? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200207021333.36435.roy@karlsbakk.net \
    --to=roy@karlsbakk.net \
    --cc=helgehaf@aitel.hist.no \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=zwane@mwaikambo.name \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®