From: dustin@v.igoro.us
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:11:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070313141100.GB18489@v.igoro.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59541ff30703130546s1bc682f8w6b06e117563c96ad@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:46:39AM -0300, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote:
> Anthony is really right: it depends if you need swap. In a server with
> 30 users,
> problably not, even in the case where the access is simultaneous (by experience
> with servers with 2GB of RAM and 2GB of swap).
One of the benefits of swap is that unused application text, data, etc.
can be paged out in a fairly permanent fashion. Without swap, that
stuff has to sit in RAM, even if it's not touched for hours or days.
I'm not sure if your load is such that the savings will be a significant
portion of 4G.
Dustin
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-13 9:09 [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram? P.V.Anthony
2007-03-13 9:56 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 12:46 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2007-03-13 13:39 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 14:28 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2007-03-13 14:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 23:00 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-03-13 14:11 ` dustin [this message]
2007-03-13 14:32 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 20:24 ` Richard Freeman
2007-03-14 14:19 ` Jack Lloyd
2007-03-14 17:01 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 17:26 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-03-14 19:03 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 21:21 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-03-15 10:00 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-03-13 14:30 ` Duncan
2007-03-18 3:42 ` P.V.Anthony
2007-03-13 18:04 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Peter Humphrey
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