On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > 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. Of course I'm perfectly aware that RAM is much faster than hard drive storage. The OP asked how much memory he needed so he didn't have to configure any swap. He even mentioned that the server's hard drive was small as one of the reasons for not wanting swap. My machines, both desktop and server, *all* have swap, even if I don't expect to ever need it. Normally, the swap usage is zero, which is what I want. But there have been instances that the presence of the rarely-touched swap space has saved my ass. It just seemed like a silly cost-saving technique. He was willing to sink hundreds of dollars on a huge amount of RAM, but was unwilling to devote an extra 10-20 dollars on a hard drive big enough to provide swap space. (Apologies if other currencies are involved.) I understand not wanting to swap. I don't understand not want swap available at all. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
