Under Linux, multiple swap partitions are automagically striped, so
the ideal scenario is in fact to spread your swap partitions over many
channels and many spindles (disks) for maximal I/O performance. In
most desktop Linux boxen, swap I/O eclipses all other disk activity.
How much swap you nee
Right now I have a DOS formatted disk as my primary master and a Linux formatted disk
as my primary slave. Of course the dos formatted disk doesn't have anything on it. I
just haven't decided if I actually want to put a MS product on there yet. But this
config boots fine.
Thanks,
CatNTHat
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 07:29:11PM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:40:25 -0500 (CDT), Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>
> >For #2, I take it to basically mean that /boot must be on a primary
> >drive. (I have no idea what would happen if somebody had one hard
> >driv
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeramia Ory
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 12:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: FW: [techtalk] Installing Linux on a second hard drive.
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> > I must confess, I am a bit confused about why swap partitons on opposite
> > dri
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> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 12:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mouse Problems
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> On a list with a mix of the very-new and the very-experienced, I prefer
> not to assume that the person
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:40:25 -0500 (CDT), Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>For #2, I take it to basically mean that /boot must be on a primary
>drive. (I have no idea what would happen if somebody had one hard
>drive and nothing else on the primary chain, and a second hard drive
>on the second
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support wrote:
>And I shouldn't have any LILO issues if they are each a master, correct?
When I tried to dual boot on my old machine, I had the linux HD on the
secondary chain, and LILO protested quite vociferously. Note that even if
for some
I seem to remember something about there was a limitation in that you had to have
linux booting off one of the first two drive but that may no longer be true. I would
recommend reading the howto and man pages for lilo.
You would see improved performance with the swap on a different drive becau
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Walt wrote:
>I use a windows system to layout some
>of the web pages that I do. I upload them
>out through my rhl server via ip masq. and
>ip_masq_ftp. This has worked fine. once.
>
>But now, even with the
>
>/sbin/depmod -a
>/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
>
>lines in my rc.local
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:57:32 -0500, Jeramia Ory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One cause of a performance hit is when you swap memory in and out
>of the partition. In a single drive system, even thought the swap is
>on a separate partition, it can't access two partitions on the same
>drive at th
> I must confess, I am a bit confused about why swap partitons on opposite
> drives would boost performance.
Caveat: this is all how I understand it, and could be completely bogus,
and would welcome someone correcting me on anything I have wrong.
One cause of a performance hit is when yo
Wow, thanks for all the help! I can't wait to get to tinkering around in
the innards of my computer!
I must confess, I am a bit confused about why swap partitons on opposite
drives would boost performance.
And I shouldn't have any LILO issues if they are each a master, correct?
Thanks again, e
I was under the impression that the last drive on the cable is the primary. Most of
the time you can put the drive jumpers on cable select and then set it up that way.
The 'suffering' I am aware of in the speed is due to the bottle neck on the PCI bus.
This is due to the fact that the bus is
> With IDE devices, only one of the master/slave can talk to your computer at a
> time, on each channel. But your computer is able to talk to a device on the
> primary channel at the same time as it talks to a device on the secondary
> channel.
[snip]
> What I would probably do is set both hard dr
(since it's been a good while, and I've
been away due to unrelated problems,
I'm going to repost the whole question.
sorry!)
I wrote:
This _seems_ just a little odd to me...
I use a windows system to layout some
of the web pages that I do. I upload them
out through my rhl server via ip masq. a
> What's the best way to monitor disk space usage? Ok, the most
> efficient way to monitor disk space usage?
du and df are the basic tools.
To find the disks-space hogs, I usually start where I already know the problem
is (like ~ :-), and do "du -s * | sort -rn" and recurse.
> Surely a script
I dunno about the best or most efficient, but...
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 08:28:34AM -0700, alissa bader wrote:
> What's the best way to monitor disk space usage? Ok,
> the most efficient way to monitor disk space usage? I
> do a du and it lists all of the files being used. I'm
> looking for so
The following should do the trick:
cd /export/home
du -s * | sort -n -r
assuming you want to check all directories in /export/home of course.
Yours,
Ian.
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-Origi
ok, so I'm a dork and this is really for Solaris 2.6,
but what the hell.
What's the best way to monitor disk space usage? Ok,
the most efficient way to monitor disk space usage? I
do a du and it lists all of the files being used. I'm
looking for something that just mentions the specific
direct
Hi All,
I have a compaq pressario 1240 laptop which has a touchpad for mouse
functions. I would really like to disable this *feature* and just use
my ps/2 mouse. Is there a file to modify that will allow for this?
Thanks in advance,
Phil
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techt
I went and looked up this at the ms site and discovered that it can also be changed in
the registry. This KnowledgeBase article should help.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q121/5/94.asp
customize to your needs
April
srl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried that, but the sys
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Audin Malmin wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 10:39:32PM -0700, Lothan wrote:
>> If what I understand is correct, the cable select option requires a special
>> cable that has the master/slave pins removed as appropriate.
>
> the "special" cable just has the device select
> > (You're sending mail to the list as 'root'. Thus, you're probably at
> > LEAST doing your basic mail as root. Too many permissions. Using a
> > non-root account is the most basic of the life preservers. )
>
> Ahem... can I plead a momentary lapse of good judgement? That's what I get
> for tr
On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 10:39:32PM -0700, Lothan wrote:
> If what I understand is correct, the cable select option requires a special
> cable that has the master/slave pins removed as appropriate.
the "special" cable just has the device select lines (there
are two of them) twisted between
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