Hi Keith, Looks like the Swapping will happen once the PC memory is exhausted 1) So your point of placing SWAP place in another spare disk is a good decision but we still have the Paging happening which cant be avoided :) 2) Again moving the /var/log is another good part but there are some locations under /var/ for eg /var/run which creates PID , so why not moving /var/ to your spare instead of just moving /var/log Just thoughts Thanks Philix On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net> wrote: > I've added a second IDE card to my system on the PCI bus, > and added a small HDD on the Primary Master port for that > IDE card. > > This drive shows up using the Gparted live CD as /dev/hde > Which sounds about right. > > The other drives show up as /dev/hda (Primary Master) and > /dev/hdc (Secondary Master). /dev/hdb is an empty removable > drive caddy (Primary Slave) and /dev/hdd (Seconday Slave) is > the DVD-RW drive. > > So I now have a maximum of 8 IDE ports - 4 on the IDE > controller built into the motherboard (which BTW are all > A-OK), and 4 on the IDE-PCI addon card. > > Vivard on the Ultimate Boot CD recognises the /dev/hde > drive, as being on the PCI controller. > > I was also able to format the 2GB Samsung drive on /dev/hde > as linux-swap using Gparted. > > The largest spare drive I have is ~7 GB, which might be > enough for a linux-swap partition, and a /var/log partition. > > The idea is to have any logging and other intensive disk I/O > on a spare disk drive, so as not wake up the main hard drive > with the Linux root partition on it. > > I just want to write any 'disposable data' to a spare > hard disk drive, and keep this seperated from stuff on my > main root partition/linux installation. > > Kind Regards, > > Keith Roberts > > -- > In theory, theory and practice are the same; > in practice they are not. > > This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101201/14a48b5d/attachment-0003.html>