No. A modest amount of swap may permit the OS to work itself out of memory
contention. A large amount of swap permits the OS to dig itself into deeper
and deeper trouble.
The defaults are rarely an issue. On one server of mine:
r...@galax:/var/lib/mysql/lsnet# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1555548 1222464 333084 0 91036 726672
-/+ buffers/cache: 404756 1150792
Swap: 3028212 68304 2959908
300MB would be plenty.
Jim
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Michael S. Mason<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> My name is Michael,
>
> I have a new Dell Server that I am about to install Ubuntu 9.04 Server
> AMD64 onto. I have 4 GB's of RAM. My question? Is there any need for a
> SWAP partition with 4GB's of RAM?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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