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On Thursday 21 July 2011 16:27:03 Grant did opine thusly: |
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> >> > [..] |
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> >> > |
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> >> >> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any |
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> >> >> swap |
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> >> >> under |
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> >> >> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just |
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> >> >> 256MB of |
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> >> >> RAM |
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> >> >> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server |
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> >> >> (postfix + |
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> >> >> dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i |
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> >> >> disable swap. I do normally have swap enabled on it, |
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> >> >> though, |
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> >> >> because emerging sometimes uses a lot of RAM. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it |
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> >> > couldn't |
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> >> > emerge 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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> > Sounds like a case for a swap partition that can be activated |
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> > when you need it for big emerges. I hit the same thing with |
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> > firefox-5 oddly enough. |
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> Swap file just as good? |
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Yeah. If the docs are true, then swap files and partitions give |
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similar performance these days. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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