I am installing two servers, each with 16GB of RAM, two quad-core Xeon processors, and a SATA hard drive. The machines will be compute servers, meaning lots of concurrently logged in users, each running an assortment of jobs, and various long-running processes. The jobs will be vastly dissimilar with regards to using the memory, disk, and CPU, and to their run time, so the configuration should be generic, general purpose.
What are the current best practices with regards to swap partitions? Is it better to create one big, or several smaller swap partitions? Is the rule of thumb still RAM*2 for the total size? We are running Debian 4.0/Etch with the stock -i686-bigmem kernel. Any input or pointers will be highly appreciated! -- Arcady Genkin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
