On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Shane Milburn wrote: > 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.)
Well there are edge cases where it does not make sense to run swap but in general I support having swap on all systems. Here are a few comments on why I feel this way: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com/wiki/index.php/Swap_space#Debate_over_Use_of_Swap Excuse some messiness the site is still in development. Rob -- I tried to change the world but they had a no-return policy http://www.practicalsysadmin.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
