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  1. #1
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    Optimum Partion setup

    I just purchased a dell poweredge in order to move my website to its own dedicated server. I have a few questions on the best linux partition setup for a webserver. The system has 8 gigs of ram, raid 10 setup with four 15k rpm drives and two quadcore cpu's.

    The os is CentOS 5.1

    The server can have up to 30,000 uniques in a single day and can be somewhat database intensive.

    Does anyone have a recommend partition setup, besides the default?

    With 8 gigs of ram, what is the recommend swap? I've seen rules that say anything over 2 gigs of ram, the rule is S = M+2. So that would put me at 10 gigs swap. Is that overkill?

    Should i make a seperate partition for log files? Any advice would be appreciated...

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    I doubt you need 10GB of swap, swap should only be used as a backup when your system runs out of RAM. We usually partition about 4GB for swap per 8GB RAM, however we rarely use over a few mb. If you use too much swap, it will end up slowing your site down greatly as hard drive space is ~100X slower than RAM.


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    I still follow the old general rule of Swap = 2 * RAM. For 8GB, that would be a 16GB swap partition.
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    I see the rule, but swap is always much slower than RAM. Why not have too much swap meanwhile RAM is not very expensive currently?

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    2GB swap is the max we ever put on a server - if it's using 2GB swap, it's going to have ground to a halt anyway and most likely locked itself up, so any extra isn't going to do you any good at all.

    For a general server, we always have:
    /
    /boot
    /home
    /tmp
    /usr
    /var
    swap

    That's if it's just a single RAID set. If we've got multiple sets on different drives, then it's most likely for DB work, so we'll split /var/lib/mysql off on to its own RAID set (if it's for mySQL).
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