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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