From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HR6RL-0001RS-Nj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:49:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2DCkf21031696; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:46:41 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2DCkdos031691 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:46:40 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so2931687wxd for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:46:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kVl+cHQFCkcSwohIxWQ97NgiXq+4wWskmZUiFEhjxILGzTPSF5VNUH2nyNxrw9ZWf3+eJwVv5T2N3WZipVWQKJwB/uyVEPrBvuC2oO4PzZ94alBskEgW2kT0fCRqDTDgqfeNKhoJpWX/mnRaeDvy/wegzGFFJ2yauj4rRIjTlkE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UrBeJo0u847F/kU4Mf+RSVvCe54BBtSSm7rk05oBPPGwipYgBgOjpUunO7PRaY4OyPkM3+nmhghD/7Z8feIo93t7S4Pt8K/cUrLq8Ne9nn+QkJI4BRDip2ZY4IjjEsesBqGMpTOX4C/41y0657sTpTt2+iCz06fEoD1XMtSvhFA= Received: by 10.90.69.8 with SMTP id r8mr5767095aga.1173789999332; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.83.3 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <59541ff30703130546s1bc682f8w6b06e117563c96ad@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:46:39 -0300 From: "Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram? In-Reply-To: <200703131056.02337.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <45F66A32.1050004@singnet.com.sg> <200703131056.02337.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Archives-Salt: 230915ca-627e-4081-8959-33a1084f04b8 X-Archives-Hash: 3c6bac4dfe1875ade0d88ceec1ec34a2 My 50 cents: A swap partition is always faster than a swap file. Not so much, but is fas= ter. With 4GB of RAM is expected to find computers with lof of free space in har= d 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 experi= ence with servers with 2GB of RAM and 2GB of swap). But, in a desktop, it depends of applications running at the same time. I h= ave 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 emergin= g 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 te= rms of disk space to create it? Probably not, so create and be prepared to larg= e requests of memory :). This is my sugestion... 2007/3/13, Hemmann, Volker Armin : > On Dienstag, 13. M=E4rz 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. > -- > gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list > > --=20 []s Joaquim ------------------------------------------ (o_ Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa //\ Consultor Linux e EaD U_/_ Linux User # 100534 ------------------------------------------ -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list