-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/31/07 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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!
Create swap *files* instead. See "man mkswap" for the technique. Put them on /. That way, if you happen to need more swap at a moment's notice, you can have a GB of swap within 5 minutes. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGr6dxS9HxQb37XmcRAtdgAJsEv4Q0smQBrDX1iNooE68XqIXvVgCcD46+ pd3a4PNc1MYR6oOWHizeSyA= =CdRi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
