Hi Michael, On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Michael S. Mason<[email protected]> wrote: > 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? It depends on what you are going to use it for. 4GB of RAM is not much for a busy database application, plenty for a very light-weight static page serving HTTP server.
Unless you're extremely short of disk, it is always useful to have a swap file at least as big as your physical memory. Historic recommendations are usually twice the amount of RAM. In reality if you are swapping that much in and out, your server performance will be quite severely effected. In addition, some hibernation schemes can use swap partition. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
