[ale] Low memory system

[Chris Fowler]

That was the case for DB servers.  I'm running squid on this El Cheapo
machine

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From: bdowd at DentFirst.com [mailto:bdowd at DentFirst.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 2:12 PM
To: Chris Fowler
Subject: Re: [ale] Low memory system


I've heard that the optimum swap size is RAM x 2
which would make your swap space very far from optimal.
Don't know if that rumor is true...just food for thought.
-brian

> I have a server with 16mb ram and 300mb swap.  It appears to not swap
> correctly and things get hosed when it reaches around 20mb swap.  How can
I
> best tune /proc/sys/vm/freepages to corectly swap in this environment?  I
> need this system to remain up.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Fowler
>
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