out of swap space

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
> It is also it is worthwhile to remember that on i386 you can use
> roughly >20GB of swap space.  swap + ram need not sum to less than 4GB
> common misunderstandings aside.
> 
> If your memory load warrants larger swap allocations, you should just bump
> that number up.

Better to add more RAM or reduce or optimize the workload - as soon as
you load your machine enough that it begins heavily using swap your
machine performance will fall in the toilet.

Kris
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