Re: [Nolug] Redhat 9 server eating ram like candy...

<quote who="Joey Kelly">
> jkelly@reuben:~> free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 385424 381304 4120 171376 17616
> -/+ buffers/cache: 192312 193112
> Swap: 2104504 66360 2038144
>
> As Ray said, this is normal.

Yikes! What's with all the swap?

I know the old 2x RAM rule, but I've found that as your ram increases,
your need for swap decreases. I've done various tests with 64-768MB RAM
and it seems like 256-512 swap is always more than you need. This is with
both production servers and desktop systems, and also with laptops.

I can't vouch for this if you're doing a lot of mathematical modeling or
video editing...A

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Alex McKenzie    alex@boxchain.com     http://boxchain.com
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