>>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 2:51 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rugen, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a linux expert, but the admins here want to build linux servers > without swap space, so would that mean that they had no virtual storage? > I tried to explain the difference in swap SIZE and RATE but they just > kept repeating "ram is cheap".
Hopefully you told them just how "not cheap" it is on a mainframe. Even on midrange systems it isn't all that cheap when you get into shared/virtualized environments. If the admin wants to give 64GB to every guest, you won't get many guests. When I was supporting midrange Linux, we _never_ built systems without page space. Really nasty things start to happen if real storage runs short. To answer your question, yes, that would mean they have no virtual storage. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
