[Gllug] Linux - big not small

[Rich Walker]

Ian Northeast <ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Jason Clifford wrote:
>
>> Now that vast amounts of RAM are cheap (hands up all those with 1GB or more of RAM on their
>> desktop box) I'd say that no more than 1x physical memory is appropriate. If it were not for the
>> fact that storage is also dirt cheap I'd suggest that .25 or .5 memory is reasonable.
>
> I generally go for 1G of swap regardless of how much memory there is and consider that if it starts
> using it it needs more memory.

I always find it interesting to watch swap fill up on boxes with lots of
memory. I think it's not a bad thing: unused data does, over time,
migrate out of RAM, allowing RAM to be used to cache frequently-used data

>
> Storage is indeed dirt cheap but swapping is inefficient IMO.

Although if you run e.g. pdnsd on a gateway box, when it can't reach
outside hosts it rapidly soaks up huge amounts of memory. Better to
start swapping...

cheers, Rich.

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> Regards, Ian
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