On Thursday 21 July 2011 16:27:03 Grant did opine thusly: > >> > [..] > >> > > >> >> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any > >> >> swap > >> >> under > >> >> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just > >> >> 256MB of > >> >> RAM > >> >> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server > >> >> (postfix + > >> >> dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i > >> >> disable swap. I do normally have swap enabled on it, > >> >> though, > >> >> because emerging sometimes uses a lot of RAM. > >> > > >> > Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it > >> > couldn't > >> > emerge gcc when I had swap disabled. > >> > >> I can't compile openoffice with -j1 on 3GB RAM and no swap. > > > > Sounds like a case for a swap partition that can be activated > > when you need it for big emerges. I hit the same thing with > > firefox-5 oddly enough. > > Swap file just as good?
Yeah. If the docs are true, then swap files and partitions give similar performance these days. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
