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On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:30:21 Grant did opine thusly: |
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> >> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any swap |
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> >> under |
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> >> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just 256MB of |
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> >> RAM |
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> >> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server (postfix |
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> >> + |
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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, though, |
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> >> because emerging sometimes uses a lot of RAM. |
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> > Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it 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 when you |
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need it for big emerges. I hit the same thing with firefox-5 oddly |
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enough. |
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As for OOo, long ago I figured the pain wasn't worth the gain so now I |
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use the -bin packages. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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