Hi everyone,
I remember somebody (was it Orly?) who said that with the 2.4 kernels, you
should either have swap space worth three times the physical memory, or
none at all. Would anyone care to validate or counter this? Or maybe point
me somewhere to read up about it?
When I set up my computer I didn't know about this, so I have 512MB RAM
and 1GB swap space. I'm wondering if I can/should just remove the swap and
use that space somewhere. Why? I noticed that for some reason, my swap
always gets used:
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 500 491 8 0 2 376
-/+ buffers/cache: 112 387
Swap: 972 116 855
However, when I check my memory stats using phpSysInfo, only 50MB of my
physical memory is being used. Does this mean that the rest is used by
buffers/cache?
This box is fairly multi-tasking. I use it personally as my workstation,
and run StarOffice, Opera, Pine, LICQ, and some others. As a server it has
Samba, NFS, NTP, PostgreSQL, Apache, Apache-SSL, Postfix, and Courier
IMAP.
I -think- that 512MB is pretty sufficient, but will probaby upgrade to 1GB
when we can afford it. But I don't like applications swapping out. With
RAID5 the performance hit is significant. I'd also like to be able to use
that 1GB for ... more ISOs. ;>
Comments?
--> Jijo
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