I run without swap all the time, no problem unless you really do use all your physical memory. Brett On 6/5/06, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote: > I know this is more of a general unix question, but the thread about the > last kernel update, and memory usage got me to looking and thinking. > Given a system with 2 Gb of memory, and at peak usage, top reports > considerably less than the 2 gig amount in use, as well as system > monitoring that never shows all available memory used, what would happen > if you just turned swap off, and let memory handle things? This machine > here, has now crept up to using just under 400mb of swap, yet I've never > seen total memory usage above about 1.4gb. I'm a bit leary of just > "swapoff" while the machine is running the weather model, as I'd hate to > crash things, but I'm just wondering if turning off swap (assuming the > system is actually using the disks) would break things or in the best > case, speed things up. > > -- > Sam W.Drinkard -- sam at wa4phy.net > http://wa4phy.net > Augusta Area Mesonet > cell 706.825.8513 Home 706.868.7253 > MAIL 4428 Branchwood Drive, > Martinez Georgia, 30907-1304 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >