[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

[Jonathan Vomacka]

Paul,

Thanks for your reply. I have heard the suggestion of not using SWAP 
which is fine. My curiosity on the SWAP subject is now what happens if 
all memory is used or an application has a memory leak. Does the server 
crash if there is no SWAP and all available RAM is used? Will SWAP cause 
performance degradation issues? Also the system is not able to drop a 
core dump is the SWAP doesn't match the RAM. I guess I am a little 
worried because CentOS docs suggest 10GB of SWAP for 8GB of RAM, but it 
doesn't explain if any performance issues are seen, or if SWAP is still 
necessary if core dumps are not needed. I was hoping someone in the 
field who has had first hand experience can tell me these additional 
questions which may not be answered in the docs.

Also, any help you can give me regarding a partition map would be great.

On 8/31/2011 9:32 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 21:28 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
>
>> *Re-sending as it appears my original e-mail did not go through*.
>
>> Good Evening All,
>
> Bon soir.
>
> Both version of your email were received in Europe.
>
> On the subject of SWAP, I'm working on a standalone server with 8 GB RAM
> and a AMD 3 core processor with Centos 5.6. I do not use swap and I
> notice no detrimental effect.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul.
>
>
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