[Info-vax] Quorum disk and page/swap/dump files

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-12-06 15:25:02 +0000, RGB said:

> ...The EMC folks here are chronically short of storage space, or so 
> they claim, so asking for space is not dissimilar to asking someone if 
> they would like their wisdom teeth yanked out without any novacaine!

Yeah; because IT never has spare cycles or spare storage or spare 
anything.  :-)

> The two 2800's in question have 32GB of RAM each.  Therefore that fact, 
> coupled with the type of applications which run on those systems, 
> negates paging to a large degree.  Yes, there is paging activity on the 
> systems but minimal.  No swapping to be seen at all.
> I might leave small-ish page and swap files on the shared system disk 
> and create/install secondary page and swap - albeit larger - onto the 
> quorum disk.

Usual-typical recommendation in recent years is same-sized files, and 
not the older dissimilar-sized files recommendation.

I'd stick a bootable root there and many some recovery-related 
processing, and maybe storage for some critical backups.

But if you have a shared system disk out on the FC SAN, then put the 
quorum file on that disk.



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