-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Sloan said: > On Thu March 25 2004 09:30, Kevin Anderson wrote: >> On March 24, 2004 04:44 pm, Andrew Graupe wrote: >> > I will be setting up a new linux system in the near future, and I am >> > deciding what FS to use. I will probably use a 50MB /boot partition, >> a >> > 256MB swap and the rest will be given to the root partition. I plan >> to >> >> I was a bit suprised by it, but I found that on a desktop, I needed a >> huge >> freaking swapfile. That may well be because I'm a bit of a moron when I >> first get the thing set up, and I emerge a zillion packages at the same >> time. Most of our servers here don't need a swap partition at all >> (thought >> they all have). > > Can anyone speak to any of the classic swap file myths (that tend to > change > between kernel versions) such as: Linux never uses more than 128M of swap > (which is what I have now, using kernel 2.6)?
This has already been answered in a previous post on this thread, but I thought I would also add that having a swap partition is a good thing most of the time (depending on RAM). Even if your server has a lot of RAM available, having a swap partition available will provide a backup if the server decides to take a jump off the cliff for whatever reason (memory leak, unexpected dramatic increase in load, etc). If the server has enough emergency swap available then it just might prevent it from crashing completely when it runs out of real RAM and is unable to close enough applications down to save itself. Usually though, you never want to be in a situation where you are constantly using swap. You should upgrade the available RAM in those cases. Swap is mainly for temporary emergency situations. - -- Trevor Lauder Personal: Web: http://www.thelauders.net E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: Senior Linux Analyst LAN Solutions Telephone: (403) 255-5026 WWW: http://www.lansolutions.ab.ca E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAY6rqBsV2IjgYy+cRAj9YAKDaUTU7qOL9Jbr+s2YsThVolXZt6QCfRHWM blXWVlTuvpn/ITBxCbr9Qp4= =vDYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
