Total crash in gdb!.. something is broken!.. Was: Re: FreeBSD with a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC?

[Matthew Seaman]

Alban Hertroys wrote:

> Besides that, it is probably not a very good idea to mirror your swap. I
> am certain it is bad for performance, if it'd gain you reliability is
> beyond my knowledge. This has been discussed before, you probably want
> to check the archives.

On the contrary, it is a very good idea indeed to mirror the swap partition
if your aim is to make your machine resilient against disk failure.  Losing
the swap will kill a machine just as dead as losing a filesystem.  The
performance of a mirrored root drive is a bit slower on write but generally
faster on read -- it tends to pretty much even out in the end.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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