On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! >> From: Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. >> <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: 01/23/2009 10:19 AM >> >> > >> > This question, along with other recent discussion about swap, leads me >> > to ask a question in response: Why is everyone so concerned about how >> > to get away without swap? >> > >> > Hard drives are cheap. Why does your server with potentially 10GB >> > (!!!) of RAM have a hard drive so small that you can't sacrifice a few >> > GB for swap? >> > >> > I'm really curious. >> > >> >> SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing >> DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. >> >> If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. > > In which case the real question is not "how much swap do I need?" but > "how much RAM do I need to avoid swapping?". > > poc Hi All, This wasn't addressed to any paricular architecture, it was more of a query. Why do I even need swap or a large disk if all my app does is read a few pieces from a database on disk and if I load the database into RAM is there ever a need to look at the hardisk, given that the database never changes. Thanks Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
