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* Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> [110721 12:33]: |
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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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However, it typically runs fine with no swap. |
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It's only running bind basically. |
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