I'm doing a project for a $CLIENT who has requested that I build out a small web farm capable of serving 1M hits an hour average and peak traffic to 3M/hour. No problem there but when building the systems we got into a debate about how he wants the OS built. Basically he said DO NOT build a swap partition or swap file. I asked why and his response was "These are cookie cutter web servers that do nothing other than serve apache requests. They have nothing else on them so we'll run apache up to XXX for MaxClients and MaxSpareServers (just shy of running the box out of memory) and leave it. "
He's the $CLIENT and I'l build it the way he requests but my questions are... 1. Would/Have you run a web server without swap? (they have 500Gb drives in them so there's room for a swap partition.) 2. Any benefits or drawbacks to doing this? (in context of a pure webserver that does nothing else but serve pages as part of the pool it is a member of.) Happy Friday! cheers, -shane --
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