That old rule applied to machines with less than 2 GB RAM. :)) RAM < 2 GB , SWAP = RAM * 2 RAM > 2 GB, SWAP = RAM + 2 GB OP should be fine with 16 GB of SWAP for a machine with 128 GB RAM. Cheers. On 2/7/2017 5:37 PM, Cedric Lemarchand wrote: > Hum ... I would say that ram is really expensive right now ! > In response to the OP, an old rule was to provision double ram as swap, > actually you could put the half, or nothing. > From my point of view, swap only helps in the way it retards OOM killer > process and as a sort of warning role because it slows a lot the whole OS. > > Cheers > > -- > Cédric Lemarchand > > Le 7 févr. 2017 à 17:11, Gambit15 <dougti+gluster@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:dougti+gluster@xxxxxxxxx>> a écrit : > >> Gluster doesn't "require" swap any more than any other service, and >> with the price of RAM today, most admins should even consider removing >> swap altogether. >> >> D >> >> On 7 February 2017 at 10:56, Mark Connor <markconnor64@xxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:markconnor64@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> I am planning in deploying about 18 bricks of about 50 TB bricks >> each spanning 8-10 servers. My servers are high end servers with >> 128gb each. I have searched and cannot find any detail on swap >> partition requirements for the latest gluster server. Can anyone >> offer me some advice? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> <http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-users mailing list >> Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
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