A quick and easy performance improvement

[Richard Lynch]

Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:

>
> When I read the message, I thought... this is good for all those 
> sysadmins out there who are accustomed to splitting their filesystems 
> for performance/security/convenience reasons. The BOFH in me read the 
> message as ... "If I drop this really big rock I find my running speed 
> increases, thought I'd share it with you". I didn't reply to the 
> message because I didn't want to sound rude, though.
>
> Then came Julian and, in a completely deadpan, straight-to-the-point, 
> vulcan-like manner said "but dude, you're carrying a big rock" :-)

I offered my experiences because I believed (and still do) that it is 
common to have / and /var on separate partitions on the same drive.  I 
also think it is easy to overlook the huge performance penalty with 
bayes defaulting to /.  Moving bayes to /var was dramatic enough (a 10 
fold reduction in IOWait time) that I believed it was worth sharing with 
others who may have the same setup.  That's why I posted.

-- Rich

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