[CentOS] Swap Considerations
Mike McCarty
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 28 18:53:31 UTC 2007
William Warren wrote:
> I'm going to be different from most. I don't believe in using swap at
> all. I have my swap starting equal to my ram and as i go up i REDUCE
> the swap. My vm.swappiness is always set to zero as swapping to disk is
> many times slower than keeping it in ram.
It makes sense not to continue to increase swap as RAM increases,
that's true. But for "small" RAM machines, swap makes a lot of
sense, I trow. Virtual is slow, but it beats not being able to
run apps at all.
Mike
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