On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:17 PM, James Sizemore <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll have to disagree with Tilghman on this one. You should always have at > least as much swap as ram, however double would be over kill. If for no > other reason than to guaranty you get a full core dumps on system crashes. > Trying to trouble shoot or root cause assess system crashes without good core > dumps is difficult if not imposable. > > Disk space is cheap, if you can afford the RAM having the swap equal it > should be a trivial cost, and gives you more time to find fast memory leaks > before systems go catatonic.
Would you care to share your knowledge for why you think this matters on Linux? Extra swap might help you on Solaris, where the way that swap meshes with the system is quite different (and possibly on other Unix platforms), but I don't think it's going to help on Linux. You're better off having that amount of space free on the root filesystem (or whatever filesystem to which your core dumps are directed), when it comes to Linux. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
