On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:15:31 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > I've part-time admin'd (contracted) a couple of systems that required > > 128GB of swap during batch processing "middle of the night" setups. > > Primarily because of the inner looping of some of the jobs and the > > amount of "stored" info hanging in memory. Rather than fix the batch > > processing system, which came from an AS400 (which originally was on an > > IBM 36 system), the company suggested swap as a workaround. > > How much memory and swap did the program have to play with on an AS400 > or 36? > > To generalize the problem, given that the software can't be changed, at > what point do you start to look at either a bigger single computer or a > cluster that looks like a bigger computer? For me its just an > intelectual exercise; I went from a 486 with 32 MB swap to an Athlon > with 1GB in a single bound. That Xorg makes _that_ swap really burns me > up. > > Doug. Xorg swaps with a GB? I run Xfce with 512MB and I rarely see swapping; even on my 196MB machine I didn't see much swapping. What else are you running besides X? Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
