daWabbit
10-18-2000, 03:19 PM
My K6-2 500 box (overclocked to 616 and stable that way on Linux, though not so much on Win 98 in dual boot config) was configured with everything mounted on /, using a second hd (b). SuSE 6.2 did that when I installed it and the more recent install of Debian Potato was done the same way. The drive is only 2.5 gigs, though, and /usr soon took up almost all the free space left at install time.
The cure I chose was to put a third drive in (second Linux drive) and move /usr there in it's entirety. This one is a 2.1 Seagate. (I get all these drives others think are too small for nothing or a favor, so I use them.)
Anyway, it's a little weird to hear both drives churning away, but it worked well and my seti times dropped another 7% on average, too. So I repartitioned hdd to include a swap of 120 megs, prioritized at -2, where the swap on hdb is at -1. Seti times dropped again, by 5% (average of 10 and so not definitive, but hopefully indicative.
Final configuration is 2 drives. /, /boot and a 120 meg swap on hdb and /usr with a 120 meg swap on hdd. Swaps are at the beginning of the drives (excepting the 8 meg /boot on hdb), both swaps are prioritized to -1, which hopefully lets the system choose the nearest/fastest one.
Since I started experimenting with this, seti times have dropped almost 17% from the last long term config. So you might consider adding a drive, if you can. Just a thought.
The cure I chose was to put a third drive in (second Linux drive) and move /usr there in it's entirety. This one is a 2.1 Seagate. (I get all these drives others think are too small for nothing or a favor, so I use them.)
Anyway, it's a little weird to hear both drives churning away, but it worked well and my seti times dropped another 7% on average, too. So I repartitioned hdd to include a swap of 120 megs, prioritized at -2, where the swap on hdb is at -1. Seti times dropped again, by 5% (average of 10 and so not definitive, but hopefully indicative.
Final configuration is 2 drives. /, /boot and a 120 meg swap on hdb and /usr with a 120 meg swap on hdd. Swaps are at the beginning of the drives (excepting the 8 meg /boot on hdb), both swaps are prioritized to -1, which hopefully lets the system choose the nearest/fastest one.
Since I started experimenting with this, seti times have dropped almost 17% from the last long term config. So you might consider adding a drive, if you can. Just a thought.