On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 16:35 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Paul Heinlein wrote: > > A RAID 1 of (relatively) inexpensive 80GB or 120GB SSDs are my > > default for swap and the root filesystem. Larger /srv filesystems, >> and the NAS holding /home, still require spinning platters on our >> budget. > That's a *huge* amount of swap - we settled, years ago, and I think > upstream recommends, 2G. Now, around here, our servers have > *significantly* more than 2G, and if we see anything in swap, we know > something's wrong. We don't allocate Swap. Instead we have large RAM and put tmp directories etc. on a RAM disk. -- Paul. England, EU. Our systems are exclusively Linux. No Micro$oft Windoze here.