Re: lilo/raid?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

On Tuesday 02 July 2002 10:16, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults       
> > > 1 1 /dev/md2                /tmp                    ext3    defaults   
> > >     1 2 /dev/md3                /var                    jfs    
> > > defaults        1 2 /dev/md4                /data                   jfs
> > >     defaults        1 2 /dev/md1                swap                   
> > > swap    defaults        0 0
> >
> > One small thing, you do know that you can interleave swap?
>
> There are sometimes reasons not to do that.
> Heavy swapping may be caused by attempts to cache
> massive io on some fs.  
<snip/>

I've seen it. 1GB of swap for caching heavy downloads (se earlier thread 'VM 
fsckup' or somehting)

What is the reason of using swap for cache buffers?????

roy

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