On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:46:56PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Jerry McAllister writes:
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> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wr
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:59:23AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
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> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are there any a
>It's easy to *try* the swap files. Then measure the performance.
>If the behaviour is really as specific to your custom application as you
>indicate, then general advice may not apply either.
In fact, after discussing this with the team, we are going to do exactly that.
We'll allocate an ext
Jerry McAllister writes:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
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>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
>> >
>> > > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a v
Peter Steele wrote:
> Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is
> that we have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and
> therefore have to increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB. We have
> enough space in our /var partition that we could add a swap file
> there a
Peter Steele writes:
>>Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system
>>wasn't swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my
>>opinion... extending it to 16G would be waste of space :)
>
> I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does*
> req
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:57:07AM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk
> > > for swap space
>Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't
>swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion...
>extending it to 16G >would be waste of space :)
I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* require
this much swap space,
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:07:37 Peter Steele wrote:
> Thanks for the responses. The reason I'm looking at doing this is that we
> have increased memory on our platform from 4GB to 8GB and therefore have to
> increase swap space from 8GB to 16GB.
No you don't. It's advised, but not mandator
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Subject: Re: Using mdconfig for swap space
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
>
> > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for
> > swap space as opposed
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:52:59PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
>
> > Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for
> > swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I
> > c
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:51:20 -0500
Peter Steele wrote:
> Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual
> disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition?
> For example, I could do something like this:
>
> mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g
> swapon -a
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 04:51:20PM -0500, Peter Steele wrote:
> Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for
> swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I
> could do something like this:
Unless I am missing something basic here, it s
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Peter Steele wrote:
> Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for
> swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I
> could do something like this:
>
> mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g
> swapon -a /d
Hi, Peter--
On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Peter Steele wrote:
Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual
disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap
partition? For example, I could do something like this:
mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g
swapon -a
Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap
space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do
something like this:
mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g
swapon -a /dev/md0
to add 4G to the system swap space backed by the file /
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