2009/6/5 Jason Grout <[email protected]>: > > William Stein wrote: >> 2009/6/5 Paul Sargent <[email protected]>: >>> On Friday, June 5, 2009, ccandide <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> !! I installed Ubuntu with no swap space >>> You always want some swap with linux, whatever you're doing. My rule >>> of thumb is to allocate a swap partition twice the size of your ram. >>> Granted I started with that rule back when my machine had 8MB of ram, >>> but it still seams to work. >> >> I had problems doing that on the last box I setup. The sage.math >> server has 128GB of RAM, but only about 70GB of internal SAS disk >> space not allocated to the OS :-). >> > > Seems to me like you ought to use some of that RAM to augment your disk > space :) > > Jason
There is a ram disk on sage.math: tmpfs 10485760 0 10485760 0% /space You can use it if you need to do something very io intensive. Just go to /space and have fun. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
