Re: Fedora on ReiserFS

From: m.marien (mm)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:33:29 -0600

"Igor Jagec" <igorm5@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ct3572-vf1.ln1@munja.munja.mm...
> Hooligan Red wrote:
>
>> I don't know what the figures are for ia64/amd64. Multiple swap
>> partitions with identical priority are (like RAID 0) effectively
>> accessed in parallel and (I think) allow you to breach the above limits.
>
> Meaning that I would make 2 separate swap partitions which would equals
> 2 GB? Or one of 2 GB would be fine? I didnt't understand that :o)
>
> BTW my configuration:
>
> Abit NF7, nForce2
> Barton 2500+
> FX5200
> Seagate 120 GB, 8 MB cache
> 2x256 MB DDR RAM Kingmax 433
> ...
>
> Since I have 512 MB RAM I thought 1 GB of swap would be just fine, and
> someone says that even 512 MB of swap would be fine (?). But I'll make
> it 2 GB if that improves performance of the system.
>

Monitor your swap (swapon -s or free) under heavy loads to how much is being
used.