From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Leblanc Subject: RE: Mirroring swap Date: 26 Jun 2003 14:23:17 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1056662597.10690.6.camel@gregdell.example.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BfZerInjHkpiJdHDzEV+" Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-BfZerInjHkpiJdHDzEV+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:30, Gordon Henderson wrote: [snip] > So now with important machines which had mirrored or RAIDed disk systems, > I always put swap on a mirrored or RAID5d device. Swap on RAID 5 is going to have pretty poor performance, in general.=20 Swap needs to be both high bandwidth and low latency, both for reading and writing. RAID 5 just isn't that. Greg. --=-BfZerInjHkpiJdHDzEV+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA++2RFnAkVXO6fw4sRAq6bAJ98V3qMWbYJk4s3Egit7xNkyJcupQCeKfs8 UZGp7qgvgBZSZQ00xs4mD68= =QT/q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BfZerInjHkpiJdHDzEV+--