On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:31 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > Doesn't lvm comes late in the scene? Not if you are putting swap and root on LVM. 2.6 kernels are capable of swapping to partition, file and logical volume with the same performance plus or minus a small overhead (microseconds), but the performance hit for a system in swap really negates any of that. Make sure if your system starts to hit swap you add more memory or tune your applications with a ceiling. -Ross