<html><head></head><body>My desktop's get a little swap. This is usually based upon whether I'm going to hibernate or not. If no hibernation 2gig of swap is fine. I want the desktop to slow down as RAM is becoming scarce. That's what swap does without running out of memory. On highly limited netbooks that only have 2 gigs of ram , I find 4 gig of swap as the minimum required. This is mainly due to browser memory bloat.<br>
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My servers that have well-known workloads don't get any swap usually. If I don't know the workload when first installed, I'll provide a little swap and monitor it.<br>
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It really comes down to how well you know the workload for the system. To swap or not to swap is up to you. But there is a trade off, IMHO.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 January 2016 20:05:11 GMT-05:00, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p dir="ltr">I run with swap on my servers but I have it small compared to ram. Most 128GB systems will get 2G swap.</p>
<p dir="ltr">My HPC cluster has swap disabled. The virtual machine hosts have about 1/3 as much swap as RAM and always more than any 2 VMs ram total.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Setting swappines is a great way to tune the system for good performance.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2016 7:38 PM, "Scott McBrien" <<a href="mailto:smcbrien@gmail.com">smcbrien@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>Running without swap used to be a really risky proposition, but these days, running with out it is fine. Though oom-killer might do things you may not like. Since it's your desktop, that's probably OK, but on a server, it might cause problems if oom-killer whacked your database after killing sshd. :-)</div><div><br /></div><div>You'll note that most cloud images and the like don't run with a swap.</div><div><br /></div><div>-Scott</div><div><br />On Jan 4, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br /><br /></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div
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