Running out of memory

[Subhro]

On 5/5/2005 20:29, Jacob S wrote:

>I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has
>1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as
>the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was that when swap
>is double the size of ram, the computer is almost totally unuseable for
>at least 30 minutes whenever the computer needs to clean out swap. 
>
>Has anyone else seen this problem, or is it safe for me to add another
>GB of swap?
>
>Also, I made the mistake of partitioning all the space on the hard
>drive, with only 1GB set aside for swap. How big of a performance hit
>would it be to use a swap file instead of a swap partition? Is there an
>easy (and safe!) way to resize partitions so that I could add in a
>second swap partition? 
>
>TIA,
>Jacob
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My box has 2GB of physical RAM and 4 GB of swap spread across 3 SATA 
drives. I havent seen any lockups.

Regards
S.

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