From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 24 06:57:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00417 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 06:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from askas.co.za ([196.7.216.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00412 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 06:57:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rudi@askas.co.za) Received: from askas.co.za(mirror[196.7.216.244]) (1460 bytes) by askas.co.za via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:00:26 +0200 (SAST) (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1 built 1998-Mar-22) Message-ID: <365AC9CE.D27AB567@askas.co.za> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:59:32 +0200 From: Mirror Beastie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: request for confirmation of swapspace addition and some other qs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi I recently had to add some swap to my 3.0-RELEASE machine and did the following : 1) added an old 270mb ide hdd to the same cable as the existing ide hdd 2) used /stand/sysinstall to create and define whole 270 mb hdd as swap 3) edited /etc/fstab to include it as swap 4) also made vn0 device but i think this is irrelevent as it is only required for swap files ? 5) ran numerous mirrors and browsers and other hungry things to see how it would handle a heavy load - things seem to work - slowly but no more swap errors. My questions are : 0) this is not what the faq advised - but is it a problem ? 1) did i do this correctly ? 2) is the slow speed only due to ratio of real mem to swap (20mb/307mb) ? on a dx4/100 3) if i put the ide hdds on separate cables will this speed things up (assuming the mb supports it) ? thanks in advance any additional advice ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message