--- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote: >
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
> > i've been seeing some threads where de-activation
> > and/or NO creation of the /swap paritition is
> > recommended in ensuring the system doesn't swap..
>
> For a Squid server it is recommended to not have a
> swap to ensure the
> Squid metadata is never swapped out.
sure..
> Just make sure
> you have sufficient
> amount of RAM (the guideline in the FAQ is on the
> safe side).
i hope my 1.6GB is sufficient enough..
thanks for your help Henrik..
Regards,
Mark.
>
> For a general purpose server having a swap of twice
> the memory is
> recommended, but a Squid server is not a general
> purpose server.
>
> > typically, i configure 512MB swap partitions on my
> > Linux systems.. following on the advice in
> relative
> > threads, should i create a /swap partition and
> turn it
> > off in the filesystem table, or not create the
> /swap
> > partition altogether..?.
>
> Does not really matter. If you create the swap
> partition but don't
> activate it, or don't create the swap partition. The
> only difference is
> that if you create the swap partition without
> activating it then you waste
> some disk space. Personally I would prefer having
> that disk space for
> bigger capacity of archiving logs.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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