Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:03:57 -0400 (AST)
> From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
> To: Lincoln Spiteri <lincoln(dot)spiteri(at)st(dot)com>
> Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Lincoln Spiteri wrote:
>
> > > > I have a rather large database as well (> 2 Meg of tuples). I thought
> > > > my system was souped up enough: PII/400 MHz (100 MHz bus) 256 Meg SDRAM,
> > > > 18 Gig SCSI harddrive, Red Hat Linux 5.1. However, my swap space (512
> > > > Meg) is on the same harddrive as the database (albeit on a separate
> > > > partition). It sounds like you are saying that this is a no-no.
> > > >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Small question, doesn't linux only use around 128 Megs tops for swap
> > space? I thought I read this in a HOWTO somewhere.
>
You can use several swap partittions with different priorities

Oleg

> If it does, I'll have to add that to my list of reasons why Linux
> is a bad operating system :)
>

> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
>

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