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From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.05.9811050903240.19090-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem  (Lincoln Spiteri <lincoln.spiteri@st.com>)
Responses Re: seperate swap drive, was Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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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.

    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@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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