[GLUG-chat] Re: Sizes of Directories

[stu <swl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 Jan 2004 15:31:12 +0200
Chris Blake <chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings community,
> 
> I`m deciding what the best disk setup is for a server, and have been
> googling around for a while...I`ve been told in the past that your
> swap drive size has to be equal to or greater than the amount of RAM
> in the machine...

Hi Chris

In my experience it doesn't pay to be shy with swap. We recently had to
up the swap on two of our production machines which often ground to a
halt when under heavy load. They have 1Gb of ram each, and had 256Mb
swap, which has now been upped to 2Gb. The machines handle their tasks
a lot more effectively now.

There can come a point when a machine allocated an extremely large swap
is forced to use so much of it that it grinds to a halt anyway.
Obviously then more memory, a more powerful machine or reduced load
are required to solve the problem, rather than additional swap.

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