> perform badly under high load. All my boxes that have to perform have
> multiple SCSI disks with swap partitions on each disk, which much improves
> swap performance. Also, I reserve sd0a as an OS only disk, and put users
> and applications on partitions of the other disks.
>
> My -current box is a P200MMX with 128 megs of memory. The system is spread
> across 3 9gig disks. While I see the i/o problem, the box never really
> becomes unuseable.
> --

unfortunately such machine have disks more expensive that everything else.


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