Thanks to all, but to be more particular, Im going to use the machine with 8 or 12 Gig of physical memory for squid caching, and we all know that caching consumes to much memory. Our objective actually is to cache the most popular pages on the memory so that it will be faster to access by the clients. so far there are 3 ideas, 1st no swap dir at all, 2nd physical memory multiply by 2 or 3 and the 3rd one creating a swap with 512 MB to 1 Gig. On my scenario, wherein im going to use the system for caching, which one is more applicable? Thanks, Wennie Quoting Carlos Blanquer <relayito@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 3/20/06, Peter Surda <surda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > gypsy wrote: > > > Even with huge, and 8 gigs of RAM is huge, amounts of RAM, you need a > > > dedicated swap partition. Don't believe those who say you don't. > > On the contrary. I run many systems without any swap at all. > > > > What you get by using swap is (from a very simplified point of view) > > that if you use up all memory, instead of the programs crashing, the > > system gets "slower" (but keeps running). Whether to use swap or not > > depends on what you're doing with your computer. > > > I disagree in the point that you necessary needs swap. With that amount of > RAM, it's not needed making any swap of any size. I don't think it'll use > all of these. > By the way, there are some ways to use all that RAM so I suggest to put 512 > MB of swap o 1 Gig, no more. > This is by the fact that, if in anytime the systems gets out of RAM, > swapping some low prio proceses will decide wich threads must stop without > sacrifying any important data. > > > > > -- > Atentamente, > Carlos. > ------------------------------- > LTIM Member - http://ltim.uib.es > BkP Staff (Servidores, Gamer Area, Tesorean) - > http://www.balearikus-party.org > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
