Re: RAID & Swap.

[Micah Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Jason Pincin wrote:

> Not having swap scares me.  I'm just concerned that t some point we may have a
> massive influx of activity that would take the box to a ram level it otherwise
> wouldn't reach, beyond 256 or 512 or whatever... and boom.  Down we go.

Absolutely.  We should aim to not use the swap, but not having it would
be VERY dangerous.

> I say throw a 128MB swap partition on both drives.  Can't you have more than one
> swap partition?  If you activate both at the same time though, either disk failing
> will bring the box down.  Just activate the one living on the disk that contains
> the live root partition.  Leave the 128MB swap partiton on the other drive
> inactive, and only activate it when we need to bring the box up on the other disk.

This sounds reasonable to me.