Re: INFORMIXDIR location

In article <6s3t6v$2gh$1@news.xmission.com>, billw@fscorp.com (Bill Weaver) wrote: > > In the past, our INFORMIXDIR was always set to /usr/informix meaning > that it was on the root drive and partition (our version of unix > combines root and /usr in the same partition, some don't). Does it > make better sense to put the stuff in INFORMIXDIR on another mounted > filesystem so that it won't be "contending" for the drive with the OS? > Or is there really no significant difference? Just curious. > -------------------------------------------------------- > Name: Bill Weaver > E-mail: Bill Weaver <billw@fscorp.com> > Date: 08/27/98 > Time: 10:57:31 > > This message was sent by Z-Mail Pro - from NetManage > NetManage - delivers Standards Based IntraNet Solutions > -------------------------------------------------------- > > It depends more on where the rest of your code is and what areas of the disks are being hit hard. If /usr/informix is not taking significant traffic then from a performance point of view there's not much point. But from a backup/restore situation it might be worth moving. Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 #