Swap File location
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In before I know better, this is not systems I control. We have a good old fashioned inverted pyramid of doom VMWare stack around. When ever I have the IT department build me a server they always create a separate virtual HD, and put the OS swap file on it, then another virtual drive for programs and data. It makes installing and managing software kind of a pain. I never do this on systems I build. Why do people do this, and should I be doing it? Am I missing something?
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They do it for performance reasons in systems where they screwed up other performance tuning like having enough RAM.
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@scottalanmiller said in Swap File location:
They do it for performance reasons in systems where they screwed up other performance tuning like having enough RAM.
So if the system is built to a proper spec, then there is no reason to complicate the build? We have more than enough resources, but every system is built with 2-3 logical drives regardless.
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@s-hackleman said in Swap File location:
@scottalanmiller said in Swap File location:
They do it for performance reasons in systems where they screwed up other performance tuning like having enough RAM.
So if the system is built to a proper spec, then there is no reason to complicate the build? We have more than enough resources, but every system is built with 2-3 logical drives regardless.
Correct, we would rarely do this. That's just a mess if you don't need it to deal with another shortcoming.
