Re: swap

[Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl>]

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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/07/07 04:53, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>> Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for
>> swap file) to a raid1 system?
> 
>> The system consists of
> 
>> ---Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE mother board
>> ---Two WD Raptor 150GB each
>> ---Two Dual Opteron
>> ---16 GB ram
> 
>> In computations, I can presently offer 96GB as swap
>> (my home), though it is not enough. Actually I started
>> my system with two Maxtor HD 300GB each, though, on
>> long runs, they proved incompatible with the mother
>> board and had to be replaced.
> 
>> Thanks for advice
> 
> 96 GIGABYTES of swap space????????????????????????????
> 
> If that's not enough, you need a very large, expensive SPARC or
> Superdome system.
> 

I agree, I can't think of any application off the top of my head that
would need that much memory.  Somehow I think it's a typo and should be
96 MB, but who knows.

Joe
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