Re: Small usage of swap memory


Jean-David Beyer wrote:

[snip]

Switching from 2 SCSI drives to 4 SCSI drives (all with 8 Megabyte caches in
them, all running at 10,000rpm) made comparable tasks run about 8x faster.
Part of that was due to switching from ext2 file system to raw file system,
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but not all. It depends on your dbms whether you can run on raw file systems.

Saw this last night, of any interest to you?

Patch: the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver
....
Let's do the scheduled removal of the obsolete raw driver in 2.6.17.
http://lwn.net/Articles/168419/

prg

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