Red Hat Configuration - Multiple swap partitions?

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Multiple swap partitions?

paddy spencer

2004-09-08, 5:55 pm

A thought that came to me earlier is: if you have multiple physical disks
in your box (as I intend to - one machine being firewall/gateway and
file/print server to the other machines in the house) could and should I
configure different swap partitions for each disk?

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Scott Lurndal

2004-09-09, 5:56 pm

paddy spencer <you@must.be.joking> writes:
>A thought that came to me earlier is: if you have multiple physical disks
>in your box (as I intend to - one machine being firewall/gateway and
>file/print server to the other machines in the house) could and should I
>configure different swap partitions for each disk?
>

No. You are unlikely to be swapping anyway handling the workload you
have specified, unless you are running on a 16 mb system, in which
case you should probably get more memory rather than have multiple
swap partitions.

scott

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>paddy underscore spencer at hotmail dot com
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