-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 02:26:04PM -0400, Brett Serkez wrote: > 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. > > I run without swap all the time, no problem unless you really do use > all your physical memory. I keep my swap on, but set swappiness to 0. Been working great that way. []s PS: I really wish people would stop top-posting. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEhHnmpdyWzQ5b5ckRAuIaAJwMgB95Rxps+jJaOqBnYRmFnv1S/QCgin65 qSFO+p8xGEUJO6DpREk5YCs= =XPGU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----