* Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> [110721 12:33]: [..] > I think if you have 4GB of RAM you shouldn't need any swap under > normal circumstances. I have a gentoo box with just 256MB of RAM > that's running web server (apache + php), mail server (postfix + > dovecot), and database (mariadb), and it works fine if i disable swap. > I do normally have swap enabled on it, though, because emerging > sometimes uses a lot of RAM. >
Indeed, I have a server with 256MB of memory and it couldn't emerge gcc when I had swap disabled. However, it typically runs fine with no swap. It's only running bind basically.
