I have a standard 2x RAM swap size of 4gb. The problem that I am seeing though is that the applications (MySQL and apache) are segfaulting -before- the system starts to swap, almost where they have an aversion to using swap.
Cheers Kad On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote: > > On 12/1/2011, at 10:47pm, Kaddeh wrote: > > ... > > First, addressing the SQL issue and why I think that that could be one of > > the causes. The entire site, for the most part is all in one giant DB > > (~9GB) a significant part of that is a 3gb table full of raw image data > > (yes, I know that this is a REALLY bad idea to do, but I didn't design > the > > site, I just did a migration to off-site) that being said, there could be > a > > problem with that. > > I think I may have heard database guys argue for keeping image data in the > DB. I'm not sure that it's always a bad idea. > > However: how much swap do you have? > > If you have a 12GB swap file, perhaps you will no longer see this problem? > > Stroller. > > >
