Re: lilo/raid?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:33:36 +0200


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

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