On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nataraj <incoming-centos at rjl.com> wrote: [snip] > In recent years people seem to configure a wide range of different swap > allocations. I was thinking initially to spread swap across seperate > non-raid partitions on 4 of these disks, but the downside of that is if I > put 2gb on each disk, then I can only swap processes that will fit in 2gb > swap space. Also, if one of the disks fails, I have to reboot if anything > was swapped to that drive. I'm not certain that's entirely accurate... It's not so much "swap space" as "page space". I.e., there are pages being swapped out rather than entire processes.