*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 30/08/2005 at 12:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There is a friend of mine who uses to setup a swap partition on a >> ramdisk, so he never uses the disk for memory management. This would >> save a lot of processing and disk usage for you. When you have so much >> users and start using swap, the performance gets worse very easily, >> and this is a real problem, because so many users will keep the server >> much busy all the time. > >Surely having RAM is always better than swapping to ramdisk, ie you have >RAM-ramdisk + ramdisk vs RAM >Anybody?
It seems (from my observations) that unlike Windows, Linux CAN avoid using swap space. So if you have enough RAM, the swap space will not be touched = excellent preformance. Regards, Harry ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
