On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:42:03AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:16:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Patrick Ouellette wrote: > >> > >> I've run machines with 1Gig or more RAM with NO SWAP. I've also run > >> machines with 4Gig of RAM and 16Gig of swap (BIG datasets). > >> > >> Pat > >> > > Well, > > > > I tend to agree with you, however, I am being sucked dry of my Linux > > knowledge (the purpose of the interview, find the point of breakdown to > > determine the extent of the knowledge/skill). And much to my surprise I > > just found this: > > > > "At a bare minimum, you need an appropriately-sized root partition, and > > a swap partition equal to twice the amount of RAM" > > > > page 59, from a questionable source: Installation Guide of RHEL5. > > interestingly RHEL4 at 2.6 kernel distro still also made swap files of > 2G max and used multiples of that. Since 2.6 this hasn't been > necessary. > > Just because RHEL does it that way doesn't make it right > > Patrick I believe has the better approach - what are you going to use > the box for and what sort of response do you want, although I have to > diss agree on the need for large swap space for a database, DB are > engineered to use all the space that are told to get hold of and have > their own caching. Why interfere with it by pretending you have more > memory than you do. You could end up hitting swap because the DB cache > has grown. >
I just want to clarify. I said there were big datasets, not necessarily a database application. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO "Crank the amp to 11, this needs more cowbell - and a llama wouldn't hurt either" "Your arguments are an odd mix of overly optimistic on one side and overly pessimistic on the other" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
