[ale] who is eating my drive

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Tue May 31 14:04:33 EDT 2011


Is having a swap device larger than 2GB useful for 99.98% of users?

Seems if you use that much virtual memory, performance would start to
suffer.

For most of my VMs, I don't give **any** swap. I can ensure no over
commitment happens.




On 05/31/2011 01:28 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Thanks for all your time.
> 
> Here is the output of the fdisk -l command
> 
> devusr at devusr-virtual-machine:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 22.5 GB, 22548578304 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2741 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00075d29
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1698    13630464   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            1698        2742     8386561    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            1698        2742     8386560   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> 
> 
> So what should I be looking here for ?
> 
> -Narahari


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