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On Thursday 11 June 2009 14:10, Austin Gossmeyer wrote: > > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:48:17 +0100 > > From: gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx > > To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions > > > > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Austin Gossmeyer wrote: > > >> From: tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:20:45 +0100 > > >> Subject: Re: [LUG] Mounting Partitions > > >> > > >> On Thursday 11 June 2009 11:20, Austin Gossmeyer wrote: > > >>> I have 3x17431M and 2x34857M drives on a Ubuntu 9.04 system. I am > > >>> wondering the best way to split them up. At the moment Ubuntu is > > >>> installed on one of the 17431M drives and I was thinking of using one > > >>> drive for squid logs and another for dansguardian logs. I have > > >>> formatted the other drives but I am not sure how to get them in use. > > >>> What space should I give the log files? Thanks in advance. > > >> > > >> Put your swap partition on a drive thats nor used for anything else > > >> 'during the day' and if possible on the fastest to access drive. That > > >> way your system can get hold of any swap data asap and in certain > > >> situations you'd be amazed at the speed up. > > >> Tom te tom te tom > > > > > > How do I deduce which is the fastest? > > > > The hdparm command will do a gross speed test, but the best way to get it > > faster is to not have swap, but buy more memory. > > At the moment it has a gig of ram. It all depends what your trying to use the pc for and the loading of the same. If its only got a gig of ram then swap may be useful. Obviously RAM would be faster but if you hardly ever use over 1G - and a linux server (?) probably wont get near that unless you do some serious DB work on it - then swap is a better option than 3G of ram doing nothing or not a lot. I'm also not sure how swap works these days - in theory you can have a near infinite amount of swap whereas as 32bit system can only ever use 4G of ram. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html