[ec2] swap?

[Eric Hammond]

Darren:

The default for 64-bit instances on EC2 is to boot with no swap.  I
don't know why Amazon set it up differently than 32-bit instances.

You can see the storage layouts here:

  http://ec2storage.notlong.com

With Ubuntu you can easily add a swap file at run time, or use one of
the extra unused ephemeral storage partitions or even an EBS volume as swap.

In my own production servers I prefer to run with plenty of memory and
no swap.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Darren Govoni wrote:
> Hi,
>   Pardon if the question is answered already, but I notice in my ubuntu
> 8.10 (beta) server AMI there is no swap partition or its 0. Its a 64-bit
> high-end CPU image with 7GB RAM. Shouldn't it have a swap partition or
> how are others setting theirs up?
> 
> thanks for any tips,
> Darren
> 
>