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

A server here at lsu has 4GB of ram and a 16gig HD just for swap...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex McKenzie" <alex@boxchain.com>
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: 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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