swp - Re: ext3 journal on software raid (was Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard)

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Andy Smith wrote:

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:33:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:

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if one is using swap space ... i'd add more memory .. before i'd use raid
	- swap is too slow and as you folks point out, it could die
	due to (unlikely) bad disk sectors in swap area

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Your recommendations

that'd be your comment ... that is not whati said above

and all i said, was use memory before you use swap on disks

and if you are at the 2GB lmit of your mb ... you obviously don't
have a choice
	- if you are using 128MB of memory and using 2GB of swap
	and bitching about a slow box or system crashing due to swap...
	- that was the point ... add more memory

	- and i don't think anybody is idiotic enough to add
	more memory for the "spikes" in the workload

so far have been "don't run processes which
might swap" and "don't let swap be used".  If you yourself are able
to keep to both of these 100% of the time may I ask why you yourself
have any swap at all?

you're twisting things again... but no problem.. have fun doing that
 

ometimes) or those of us in the real world where swap is desirable
and may (sometimes) be used, a swap device failure *will* *take*
*the* *machine* *down*.

my real world is obviously better .... since we do NOT suffer
from these mysterious disks crashes

we go to fix peoples problems

c ya
alvin