[Gllug] Cloning only one of two partitions & how necessary is swapspace...

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

John Hearns wrote:
> On 10 April 2010 11:13, general_email at technicalbloke.com
>   
>> Yeah I'm not sure mine will take much more RAM so I think I'll either
>> leave the swap on the SSD or dedicate a crappy old drive to it as you
>> suggest. Any idea how I might go about logging the number of IOs and how
>> much traffic there is to and from my swap partition for 24 hrs so I can
>> gauge how hard it would work its successor?
>>     
>
> sysstat and sar should do the trick for you:
> http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/documentation.html
>   


Thanks John, that's perfect, what a fantastic little set of apps!

:)

Roger.
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