SWAP Question?

[Jim Tarvid]

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.

The defaults are rarely an issue. On one server of mine:

root at galax:/var/lib/mysql/lsnet# free
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1555548    1222464     333084          0      91036     726672
-/+ buffers/cache:     404756    1150792
Swap:      3028212      68304    2959908

300MB would be plenty.

Jim

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Michael S. Mason<midnitemac at me.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> My name is Michael,
>
> I have a new Dell Server that I am about to install Ubuntu 9.04 Server
> AMD64 onto. I have 4 GB's of RAM. My question? Is there any need for a
> SWAP partition with 4GB's of RAM?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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