recommendation for swap space?

Simon Lyall simon at darkmere.gen.nz
Tue Apr 8 01:12:30 CEST 2008


On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Michael S. Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Simon Lyall <simon at darkmere.gen.nz> wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Michael S. Fischer wrote:
> >  > That said, it wouldn't make sense to entirely deallocate your swap
> >  > space, since the kernel may decide to page or swap out processes other
> >  > than Varnish.
> >
> >  and what is wrong with that?  Surely your RAM is better being used by the
> >  main applications on the server ( Varnish ) rather than "sitting around
> >  and waiting" copies of sshd, cron and getty?
>
> Huh?  Nothing I said contradicts that.

Sorry, I read " wouldn't " as " would " [1] .


[1] Approx 7 times.

-- 
Simon J. Lyall  |  Very Busy  |  Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/
"To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.




More information about the varnish-misc mailing list