<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Cool, thank you ALL for your quick replies!<div><br></div><div>Enjoy the rest of your day...</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Michael<br><div><br><div><div><div>On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:04 PM, John Klockenkemper wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Michael,<br><br>            Stick to the default swap like Jim recommended. It is always a good idea to have swap, even though you may never use it. Having swap for whenever is good but not having any swap when you need it is BAD.<br> <br>John Klockenkemper<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Michael S. Mason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:midnitemac@me.com">midnitemac@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><div style=""><div>So, I should choose <b>NO</b> SWAP partition? Or stick with a default swap with a guided partition?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, should I choose to use LVM (Logical Volume Management)?</div> <div><br></div><div>Thanks again!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><div><br><div><div>On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Jim Tarvid wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">No. A modest amount of swap may permit the OS to work itself out of memory contention. A large amount of swap permits the OS to dig itself into deeper and deeper trouble.<br> <br>The defaults are rarely an issue. On one server of mine:<br> <br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">root@galax:/var/lib/mysql/lsnet# free </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Mem:       1555548    1222464     333084          0      91036     726672</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">-/+ buffers/cache:     404756    1150792</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Swap:      3028212      68304    2959908</span><br><br>300MB would be plenty.<br><br>Jim<br><br>On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Michael S. Mason<<a href="mailto:midnitemac@me.com" target="_blank">midnitemac@me.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Hello All,<br>><br>> My name is Michael,<br>><br>> I have a new Dell Server that I am about to install Ubuntu 9.04 Server<br>> AMD64 onto. I have 4 GB's of RAM. My question? Is there any need for a<br> > SWAP partition with 4GB's of RAM?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Michael<br>><br>> --<br>> ubuntu-server mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a><br>> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a><br> ><br><br><br><br>-- <br><a href="http://ls.net" target="_blank">http://ls.net</a><br><a href="http://drupal.ls.net" target="_blank">http://drupal.ls.net</a><br><br>The path to God starts with a simple act of kindness.<br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>--<br> ubuntu-server mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a><br> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a><br></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>