[plug] tip: cool mount + kernel2.4 trick

Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Wed Jun 5 06:57:33 WST 2002


with swap and two spindles, split it across both (two swaps) - it will
use both in parrallel (something like raid 0 striping) will give some
more performance boost.

BillK

On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 02:46, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Hi all
> For those not in the know (me 'till 5 mins ago) thought I'd mention a 
> cool trick I just ran into.
> 

> Created one swap partiton (swap on a separate spindle to /, /usr, etc is 
> always nice - I got about a 15-25% performance boost under artificial 
> load from it) and the rest as a monster reiserfs partition. Created 
> "home" and "netstore" on it, then created an fstab entry to mount it on 
> /mnt/80g (w perms root.root 700).
> 




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