Re: more RAM = more speed?
Sorry, forgot to put debian in the adress-field. It's getting late here in
denmark...
Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Wichmann, Viggo
> Sendt: 25. august 1999 20:11
> Til: 'Patrick Olson'
> Emne: Re: more RAM = more speed?
>
> Hi Patrick
> I sincerely doubt if you will have any kind of trouble putting in another
> drive. I've done it recently without any squeaks.
> I'd say it might be worth getting a (small?) new(-ish), (but most
> important) fast drive, and maybe just use part of it for swap, and use the
> rest for something else like /tmp or whatever. Being a relative newbie,
> I'm not sure how to actually do it, but some wiz guys can probably
> enlighten you (and me!) on how to "split" your filesystem on several
> disks...
> hth
> Vitux
>
>
> Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Patrick Olson [SMTP:compman@internetcds.com]
> Sendt: 25. august 1999 17:14
> Til: Brian Servis
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> Emne: Re: more RAM = more speed?
>
>
> Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful.
>
> > Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to
> > have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each
> > partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition
> > which will provide the best performance.
>
> I don't know much when it comes to drives in Debian, so I have a few
> questions:
>
> 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD.
>
> Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the
> CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing,
> so the only possible trouble spot might be booting.
>
> 2. Is there a a how-to or some doc's for this? I made a swap partition
> with cfdisk in the beginning and let the (excellent) install program
> figure out the rest. Thus, I never learned much about swap.
>
> 3. Since any drive I add will be old and slow (<200MB), is it worth it?
>
> That is interesting that when both are given equal priority, the kernel
> figures out which one is best. I didn't know about that feature.
>
> Thank you,
> Patrick Olson
>
>
>
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