swap space
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Tue May 3 14:16:00 PDT 2005
On May 3, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net
> LLC wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make
>>> allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you
>>> ever plan to add 32GB of RAM).
>>>
>>
>> I understand that people recommend as much swap as you have ram or
>> more. However, is this required and why? I have a dual opteron
>> system running i386 5.3-release (with released patches) and it has
>> 4GB RAM and only 2GB of swap, which is hardly ever touched, and when
>> it is, just in small amounts.
>>
>> Why is this a problem? (If it ever needs the 2gb of swap I am in
>> trouble as the load at that time would be sky high and the machine
>> not really responsive anyway)
>>
>
> I explained in my email..you need it to dump the kernel.
>
Thanks!
Well, on my production system, I am not dumping any kernels. Once It
crashes, I reboot it and go back into production. Anything dumped
would get wiped out. Luckily I am pretty conservative and only move
to new versions of the OS when they have been released a while and so
my machines have not had panics in years.
Thanks
Chad
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