Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 16:27 -0800, Don MacAskill wrote:We have an 8-way RHEL4 AS system (4 dual-core Opterons) with no swap (because swapping is still broken for DB loads. It swaps the DB out in preference of disk cache).zero swap is a really bad idea. At least make a 10Mb or so swap.
I hear you, and will try it, but can you explain why zero swap is a bad idea?
I don't want any disk activity. I have ample RAM (32GB, of which I leave >3GB free at all times).
I have plenty of diskless boxes which obviously have no swap. Are you saying that I can't/shouldn't run diskless either?
Why on earth would no swap be such a bad idea if I'm no-where near starved for RAM?
Don