[CentOS] Re: Swap Considerations

Tue Feb 27 21:15:53 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

William Warren spake the following on 2/27/2007 12:04 PM:
> 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.
> 
Yes, but a small bit of swap in an emergency condition wouldn't hurt, and dasd
is a lot cheaper than it used to be.

I guess I am showing my age with the dasd reference.

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