Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-27 Thread Brett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, This is out of the topic question, but I'm hoping that you can help me. If for example I'm going to install a Fedora 4 64-bit with 8 to 12 Gig of physical memory, how much swap file of directory do I need to create? Many people on this thread are giving

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-22 Thread Anton Glinkov
If the machine will be used only for squid, I suggest you create no more than 1GB of swap, just in case the physical memory runs out. You can play with the cache_mem setting in squid.conf and see what is the maximum value with which it doesn't use swap-space (after all what you seek is cache

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-22 Thread Tomas Simonaitis
I agree, 1-2GB of swap is good choice from my experience. I don't think you should run without swap at all - there usually is something OS can push to swap and free some ram. On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:56, Anton Glinkov wrote: If the machine will be used only for squid, I suggest you create

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-22 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 19:19 +0200, Tomas Simonaitis wrote: I agree, 1-2GB of swap is good choice from my experience. I don't think you should run without swap at all - there usually is something OS can push to swap and free some ram. Well it can't hurt in the sense that it's not like hard

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-21 Thread Carlos Blanquer
On 3/20/06, Peter Surda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gypsy wrote: Even with huge, and 8 gigs of RAM is huge, amounts of RAM, you need a dedicated swap partition.Don't believe those who say you don't.On the contrary. I run many systems without any swap at all. What you get by using swap is (from a very

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-21 Thread Jason Boxman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks to all, but to be more particular, Im going to use the machine with 8 or 12 Gig of physical memory for squid caching, and we all know that caching consumes to much memory. Our objective actually is to cache the most popular pages on the memory so that it will

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-21 Thread Carlos Blanquer
On 3/21/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all, but to be more particular, Im going to use the machine with 8 or 12 Gig of physical memory for squid caching, and we all know that cachingconsumes to much memory. Our objective actually is to cache the most popularpages on the

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-21 Thread Carlos Blanquer
On 3/21/06, Jason Boxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:As you've discovered, with 12GB of RAM using a 2 or 3 multiply rule ishardly reasonable. Sorry? That's a 36 GB swap ( 12 x 3 )? So much memory at all. Ideally you will pick a value based on testing your workload against

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-20 Thread lartc
hi wennie, On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:44 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, This is out of the topic question, yep. but I'm hoping that you can help me. If for example I'm going to install a Fedora 4 64-bit with 8 to 12 Gig of physical memory, how much swap file of directory do I

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-20 Thread Kajetan Staszkiewicz
Dnia poniedziaƂek, 20 marca 2006 08:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisaƂ(a): Hi All, This is out of the topic question, but I'm hoping that you can help me. If for example I'm going to install a Fedora 4 64-bit with 8 to 12 Gig of physical memory, how much swap file of directory do I need to

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-20 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
Off Topic I am not a swap fan these days. I am not to sure it's really that necessary. If the system has adequate memory for the applications and task it will be doing. Most times there will be little to no swap used ever. The more memory, the less likely you will ever swap. And if you do it's

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-20 Thread lartc
hi all, woops forgot -- that whole thing about maximum swap partition size :-/ yikes -- still a ton of memory :-) cya charles -- simplified chinese is not nearly as easy as they would have you believe ... a superlative oxymoron --anonymous ___

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Surda
gypsy wrote: Even with huge, and 8 gigs of RAM is huge, amounts of RAM, you need a dedicated swap partition. Don't believe those who say you don't. On the contrary. I run many systems without any swap at all. What you get by using swap is (from a very simplified point of view) that if you

Re: [LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-20 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
gypsy schrieb: The size of the swap partition should be at least 512 megs. The maximum should normally be no more than 2 gigs. IIRC the 2 GB limit for swap partitions on i386 was lifted a few years ago. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/

[LARTC] Swap size

2006-03-19 Thread wlagmay
Hi All, This is out of the topic question, but I'm hoping that you can help me. If for example I'm going to install a Fedora 4 64-bit with 8 to 12 Gig of physical memory, how much swap file of directory do I need to create? Thank you very much, Wennie