Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:35:18 +0100 (BST) | From | "Dr S.M. Huen" <> | Subject | Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps |
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:57:57AM +0100, Dr S.M. Huen wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > For large memory boxes, this is ridiculous. Should I have 8GB of swap? > > > > > > > Do I understand you correctly? > > ECC grade SDRAM for your 8GB server costs £335 per GB as 512MB sticks even > > at today's silly prices (Crucial). Ultra160 SCSI costs £8.93/GB as 73GB > > drives. > > Maybe you really should reread the statements people made about > this before. > I think you might do with a more careful quoting or reading of the thread yourself before casting such aspersions.
I did not recommend swap use. I argued that it was not reasonable to reject a 2*RAM swap requirement on cost grounds. There are those who do not think this argument adequate because of grounds other than hardware cost (e.g. retrofitting existing farms, laptops with zillions of OSes etc.)
> > That swap = 2 * RAM is just a guideline, you really should look > at what applications you run, and how memory they use. If you > choise your RAM so that all application can always be in memory > at all time, there is no need for swap. If they can't be, the > rule might help you. > I think the whole argument of the thread is against you here. It seems that if you do NOT provide 2*RAM you get into trouble much earlier than you expect (a few argue that even if you do you get trouble). If it were just a guideline that gracefully degraded your performance the other lot wouldn't be screaming.
The whole screaming match is about whether a drastic degradation on using swap with less than the 2*RAM swap specified by the developers should lead one to conclude that a kernel is "broken".
To conclude, this is not a hypothetical argument about whether to operate completely in core. There's not a person on LKML who doesn't know running in RAM is better than running swapping. It is one where users do swap but allocate a size smaller than that recommended and are adversely affected. It is about whether a kernel that reacts this way could be regarded as stable. Answe
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