Re: [gentoo-user] mysqld invoked oom-killer

[Grant]

>> > [..]
>> >
>> >> I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any swap
>> >> under
>> >> normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just 256MB of
>> >> RAM
>> >> that's running web server (apache + php), mail server (postfix
>> >> +
>> >> dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i
>> >> disable swap. I do normally have swap enabled on it, though,
>> >> because emerging sometimes uses a lot of RAM.
>> >
>> > Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it couldn't
>> > emerge gcc when I had swap disabled.
>>
>> I can't compile openoffice with -j1 on 3GB RAM and no swap.
>
>
> Sounds like a case for a swap partition that can be activated when you
> need it for big emerges. I hit the same thing with firefox-5 oddly
> enough.

Swap file just as good?

- Grant