Stephen asked: > Does a 4 GB swap partition seem excessively large to anyone?
Yes, it does. Maybe there's some kind of memory-crazy application that runs on the server, but if so I would expect that for performance reasons you'd drop 8GB of RAM into it rather than crunch through swap. A rule of thumb I heard a long time ago was that swap should be anywhere from half to equal to the amount of RAM on a machine. So if you have 1GB of RAM, a swap partition of 512MB - 1GB would be appropriate. But I don't know if that's based in some kind of technical theory or if it's just a random setting people like. :) You commented that the 4GB swap drives were part of a RAID-1 array, which seems silly (if I understand you correctly). There's no reason to mirror swap data, and in fact it'll slow down the already dog-slow use of the partition. In short, I'd say it would be better all around to have a 1GB swap partition (not RAIDed) and be done. $0.02, Jeff
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