Shane Milburn <[email protected]> writes: > 1. Would/Have you run a web server without swap? (they have 500Gb drives > in them so there's room for a swap partition.) > 2. Any benefits or drawbacks to doing this? (in context of a pure > webserver that does nothing else but serve pages as part of the > pool it is a member of.)
Last time I was looking at doing this, linux used different memory management strategies based on the amount of swap present. For the servers I was building (a high performance proprietary application) we found we needed swap. It didn't matter how much, even a meg of swap was enough, but we had countless weird memory performance issues without it. Of course, there are a lot of knobs in the linux memory management system that I never tweaked, and it may be different now, but at least for linux, I'm very wary of running without swap. seph _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
