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>> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any swap under |
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>> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just 256MB of RAM |
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>> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server (postfix + |
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>> dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i disable swap. |
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>> I do normally have swap enabled on it, though, because emerging |
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>> sometimes uses a lot of RAM. |
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> Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it couldn't emerge |
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> gcc when I had swap disabled. |
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I can't compile openoffice with -j1 on 3GB RAM and no swap. |
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- Grant |
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