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- Subject: [Discuss] to swap or not swap
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:47:31 -0400
- In-reply-to: <1409923821.13713.6.camel@micphys04.nci.nih.gov> (Stephen Adler's message of "Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:30:21 -0400")
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Stephen Adler <adler at stephenadler.com> writes: > Thanks for the discussion. The question, which seems to have gotten lost > in the original e-mail was that I have a system with 128Gigs of memory > and I added 32Gigs of swap just because I've always added some swap to > any system I configure. (It's like brushing your teeth in the morning, > you just do it...) But with 128Gigs, which is the largest amount of > memory I've worked with in any system, it dawned on me that perhaps I > don't need any swap.... So, to swap or not to swap was the question. Yes, you should always have at least *some* swap, even if it's just 512M-1G, in order to swap out dead/dying/zombie processes. > thanks. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord at MIT.EDU PGP key available
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