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Hi |
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SWAP is not necessarily a bad thing. It is mealy a simple way of moving |
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unused code from memory so that it can be better used, ie disk caching. |
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Swap can be bad if you have insufficient memory to run your processes. |
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If your system has lots of disk activity, the OS will assign memory to |
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cache the disk. This may where you memory is going. |
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You say that your system is using perl. What else? Apache? MySQL/PgSQL? |
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etc ... |
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Please more info .. |
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All the best |
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Simon |
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On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 20:45 -0600, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: |
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> Grant wrote: |
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> >> If you don't want it to swap try 'man swapoff' and 'man fstab' |
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> > It seems like swap is there for a reason so I don't want to disable |
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> > it. What I do want to be able to do is run my system in a manner that |
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> [snip] |
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> Just turn it off. You don't need it unless you run out of RAM. Swap is |
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> just for "virtual RAM." You don't *need* virtual RAM unless you run out of |
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> physical RAM. |
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> You may still need 2GB RAM in the future... but turning off swap won't hurt |
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> anything. Using 'swapoff' and 'swapon' will let you try-before-you-buy. |
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> Editing fstab (comment out the line with the swap partition) will make it |
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> so for every boot-up. |
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> What happens when you run out of RAM? The application doesn't start up. It |
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> doesn't crash the system. Once when attempting a Gentoo install on a 486 I |
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> ran out of memory when using tar. I didn't crash, it just didn't untar my |
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> file. I turned on swap, and everything worked just fine. |
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Simon Windsor |
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