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From: Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Mirroring swap
Date: 26 Jun 2003 14:23:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056662597.10690.6.camel@gregdell.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0306260916190.5551-100000@unicorn.drogon.net>

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On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 01:30, Gordon Henderson wrote:
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> 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. 
Swap needs to be both high bandwidth and low latency, both for reading
and writing.  RAID 5 just isn't that.
	Greg.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-26 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-25 19:39 Mirroring swap Derek Yeung
2003-06-26  7:07 ` Riley Williams
2003-06-26  7:30   ` Matti Aarnio
2003-06-26  8:30   ` Gordon Henderson
2003-06-26 21:23     ` Gregory Leblanc [this message]
2003-06-26 21:44       ` Corey McGuire
2003-06-27  1:56         ` Scott McDermott
2003-06-27  2:14           ` Corey McGuire
2003-06-27  2:24             ` Scott McDermott
     [not found]               ` <200306261957360966.057B8F63@ilneval.coreyfro.com>
2003-06-27  3:22                 ` Corey McGuire
2003-06-27 16:17                   ` Ricky Beam
2003-06-27 18:04                     ` Show me the cache, was " Corey McGuire
2003-06-27 18:24                       ` Ricky Beam
2003-06-27 23:31                         ` Corey McGuire
2003-06-27  8:49       ` Gordon Henderson
2003-06-26  9:46 ` Scott McDermott
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2003-06-25 19:58 Bailey, Scott

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