[Madlug] Another RAM question

[Matt Radtke]

> The machine has 512 Mb of RAM and a 700 Gb swap partition. I was thinking
> that I could do one of the following:

700GB swap?  Seriously?  I hope you mean 700MB.

> 1. Change the 1.2Gb tmp partition to a swap partition
> 2. Create a swap file
> 3. Finesse it.
>
> The reason i was considering option 3 is that I'm a little iffy as to
> whether it will even help. Plus, he hasn't exactly provided great info on
> the problem itself. He requested a solution instead of explaining the
> problem.

If you must do something to make him happy, try a swap file.  When it
doesn't solve his problem, remove the swap file.

> From what I've read, whether it will help to increase the size of the swap
> partition depends on how the application is written.

If you are actually running out of memeory, buy more RAM.  It's cheap
these days.  Also, if you user is getting OOM messages and you solve
the problem with more swap, performance will, of course, tank.

-Matt
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Matthew Radtke
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