Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?

["Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa" <joaquim.uchoa@gmail.com>]

My 50 cents:

A swap partition is always faster than a swap file. Not so much, but is faster.
With 4GB of RAM is expected to find computers with lof of free space in hard
disk. So: creating a 4GB of swap in a partition will give us a extra
resource with
little cust.

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).

But, in a desktop, it depends of applications running at the same time. I have
4 GB  of RAM, and when emerging some large programs, I mount some part of
memory (3GB) in /var/tmp/portage (using tmpfs). This acelerates the emerging
process, and the only program I can't compile in this way is openoffice :(.

When I'm using memory as a space to compile programs, the swap is used
in some moments, if I'm using firefox (with 2 windows of 10 tabs each) and
openoffice.

So, in normal use, you probably don't need a swap. But, It will hurts in terms
of disk space to create it? Probably not, so create and be prepared to large
requests of memory :). This is my sugestion...


2007/3/13, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>:
> On Dienstag, 13. März 2007, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is swap really needed when there is a 4g of ram?
>
> depends ;)
>
> but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile is good enough and more
> flexible.
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> gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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