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- From: yeh@cs.purdue.EDU (Wei Jen Yeh)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: swap allocation strategies
- Keywords: swap
- Message-ID: <19274@ector.cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 18:59:37 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU
- Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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- Hello,
- I've read discussions on the net about deciding appropriate swap size
- for normal systems. However, I've not seen discussions concerning other
- issues like where the main swap region should reside, or a large swap vs.
- several medium ones. The system I'm running is often under heavy load.
- It currently has 32mb main mem and a main swap (/dev/swap) of size 64mb.
- There are times that I need to add an extra swap (file) to the system.
- The questions below thus come up:
- 1. Should I allocate another 64mb of swap region or two 32mb ones?
- 2. Where should they go? to the boot drive or the secondary drive?
- 3. Should I allocate a slice for the swap or use a swap file instead?
- 4. Should I reinstall the system and start w/ a single 128 mb of main swap?
- (if it's better to have a single swap region.), or four slices of
- size 32mb?
-
- Any suggestions?
-
- If it matters, I'm running Dell's sVr4 Issue 2.1. Thanks.
-
- Wei Jen Yeh yeh@cs.purdue.edu
- Department of Computer Science
- Purdue University
- West Lafayette, Indiana
-