Re: Swap Partition

Davide Bianchi wrote:
On 2007-01-14, John Thompson <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ah. What do you do then when your RAM is maxxed out? Buy a new machine?

If you are running so many services that the physical machine can't
handle, then it is time you consider a bigger machine or spreading the
load over multiple machines, yes.

For those of us on a limited budget a swap partiion still has its place.

But is not the solution, is just a workaround. And anyway, the
'2xram size' rule isn't a rule at all. Never been.

It at lest keeps the machine running, and allows programs that are basically idle and not in use to be swapped out, rather than halting the machine totally.

Look at any process list, and there are always quite a few such programs..stuff that gets invoked only occasionally.

Davide

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