Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:14:24 +0200 From: Terje Elde <terje@elde.net> To: "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "swap" partition leads to instability? Message-ID: <7E5293AA-C3B2-4CC2-B84F-44CD7002D413@elde.net> In-Reply-To: <1369558712.96152.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1369558712.96152.YahooMailNeo@web165006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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On 26. mai 2013, at 10:58, "M. V." <bored_to_death85@yahoo.com> wrote: > But recently I heard from a FreeBSD expert that I shouldn't have swap part= ition for my server, and having swap partition could make my server unstable= Any chance this could be a simple misunderstanding? That he objected to the thought of the server swapping on an SSD (or whereev= er), more than the idea of having the partition itself? If you're heavily swapping on an SSD with no redundancy, sooner or later it w= ill kill your server.=20 Generally though, havin too little memory will also give issues. ;) I usually recommend viewing swap like you view filesystems. If you don't wan= t downtime or dataloss when it dies, plan for failiure, and use gmirror or z= fs mirror and zvol.=20 Terje
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