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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:45 AM, stephen goldman <[hidden email]> wrote: > Looking for insight and best practices on the partitioning scheme. What your server is going to be used for usually helps establish this. Simple approach? Make all the disks RAID 5 and use the default install. Some questions to consider, who's going to be on the system? Just the admins or 'users' who are going ot be sucking up disk space? > ( I am aware of the best practice of assigning 1.5 the space the > physical memory) I'll tell you now that this is one of those things right up there with "what's the best editor". There's a bazillion 'rules' for how to do this. Find one you like and live with it. :) When I build a server that may get a memory hog in it, I use more than that. My baseline is usually 3 x Physical memory. Just 'cause it's easer to waste some then to try and add some later. -- << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan. Is God a performance artist? EGO hack vivo quod ago accido. http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtiernan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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