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Linux: You must use double the amount of RAM Swap Space?

Linux and other Unix-like operating systems you use © rmin "swap" to describe the movement of memory pages between RAM and disk, and the region of a disk where pages are stored. It is common to use an entire hard disk partition for swap. However, Linux 2.6 kernel, swap files are as fast as swap partitions. However, many administrators (Windows and Linux / UNIX) follow an old rule that the swap should be twice the size of the system RAM. Let's say my computer has 64GB of RAM, I set the swap space to 128 GB? I really need a swap space of 128 GB? A Do Qui © big should the swap space Linux / UNIX? At first ... Read full article »

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What to do when the problem is the Memory Swap

A few days ago to install a mail server using Courier-MTA, the truth is a bit complicated as I had to add a local DNS Bind 9 to resolve the same domain as the MTA. In tests with the staff all the way well received and delivered the mail for local accounts correctly, until a few hours. It is that outlook express nothing the customer started to give error messages in passwords, in addition to sending and receiving of mail was very slow. As he had no physical access to the mail server via ssh and was too slow, spend several hours imagining the possible problem and trying to fix everything blindly. Memory Problem Slow swap the whole system ... Read the full article »

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