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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:46:39AM -0300, Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa wrote: |
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> Anthony is really right: it depends if you need swap. In a server with |
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> 30 users, |
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> problably not, even in the case where the access is simultaneous (by experience |
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> with servers with 2GB of RAM and 2GB of swap). |
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One of the benefits of swap is that unused application text, data, etc. |
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can be paged out in a fairly permanent fashion. Without swap, that |
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stuff has to sit in RAM, even if it's not touched for hours or days. |
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I'm not sure if your load is such that the savings will be a significant |
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portion of 4G. |
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Dustin |
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