Re: Swap on SSD's (with softraid 1+C)

2022-09-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 9/7/22 09:05, Erling Westenvik wrote: Hello, ... My question is: Should I let swap be outside RAID altogether? Like "directly" on the physical disks as in sd0b and sd1b? I mean, why have softraid waste CPU cycles making swap content (if any) redundant? What do you people do? 1) if you are

Re: Swap on SSD's (with softraid 1+C)

2022-09-07 Thread Janne Johansson
> (Follow up question as for swap sizing: In the age of 32+ GB RAM, do > you people really follow the recommendations on having swap at least > twice the amount of RAM? I'm hoping for 72GB RAM and that would steal > 144GB of my 525GB disks, something that seems ridiculous.) That advice is ridiculo

Swap on SSD's (with softraid 1+C)

2022-09-07 Thread Erling Westenvik
Hello, I'm making the transition from SATA to SSD. A late bloomer.. My setup for years have been a semi-FDE softraid on two physical disks, sd0 and sd1, where the sd0a and sd1a chunks make up a RAID 1 volume sd2. sd2 contains an unencrypted root partition, sd2a, and the remainder of the filesystem