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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid 0 Swap?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:21:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GKEOG-0000s1-Ru@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6RgKP-1OA-9@gated-at.bofh.it>

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:

> Marc Perkel wrote:
>> If I have two drives and I want swap to be fast if I allocate swap spam
>> on both drives does it break up the load between them? Or would it run
>> faster if I did a Raid 0 swap?

Swap has priorities, and it will do something like striping if two swap spaces
have the same priority.

[...]
> Ie, your swap space must be reliable.  At least not worse than your memory.

It's mostly enough if it's as reliable as the system disk.

> And with striping, you've much more chances of disk failure...

It won't increase because of using striping, but because of the amount
of disks used.
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html

       reply	other threads:[~2006-09-04 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6R8WW-70v-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <6RgKP-1OA-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-09-04 13:21   ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2006-09-03 22:43 Marc Perkel
2006-09-04  0:16 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-09-04  7:06 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-04  9:47   ` Helge Hafting
2006-09-04 10:29     ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-04 10:46       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-09-18  9:50         ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found]           ` <e1a7ee0c0612272106y5e22dd21uc3f2fde567ab7532@mail.gmail.com>
2006-12-28  9:13             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-01  2:08               ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-04 15:29   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-04 20:06     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-09-05 13:37       ` Helge Hafting
2006-09-05 23:44   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-06  6:53     ` Michael Tokarev
2006-09-06 17:21     ` Kyle Moffett

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