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.
>
>
>

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