On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 10:24 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: RAM question for everyone! > From: Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. > <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 01/23/2009 10:19 AM > > > > > This question, along with other recent discussion about swap, leads me > > to ask a question in response: Why is everyone so concerned about how > > to get away without swap? > > > > Hard drives are cheap. Why does your server with potentially 10GB > > (!!!) of RAM have a hard drive so small that you can't sacrifice a few > > GB for swap? > > > > I'm really curious. > > > > SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing > DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up. > > If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap. In which case the real question is not "how much swap do I need?" but "how much RAM do I need to avoid swapping?". poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
