Yeah. One of the telltale signs of something amiss is excessive swap activity. You're not going to be happy with the performance when the swap space is actually in use heavily. Kyong
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 13), Joe Hammerman said: >> My organization has a dedicated MySQL server. The system has 32Gb of >> memory, and is running CentOS 5.3. The default engine will be InnoDB. >> Does anyone know how much space should be dedicated to swap? > > I say zero swap, or if for some reason you NEED swap (for crashdumps maybe, > but I didn't think Linux supported that), no more than 2GB. With that much > RAM, you don't ever want to be in the state where the OS decides to page out > 8GB of memory (for example) to swap. We have a few Oracle servers with > between 32 and 48 GB of memory and they all live just fine without swap. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnel...@allantgroup.com > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=kykim...@gmail.com > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
