[Gluster-users] Swap space requirements

[Dev Sidious]

ERATA:

less than 4 GB RAM.

RAM < 4 GB , SWAP = RAM * 2
RAM > 4 GB, SWAP = RAM + 2 GB

On 2/7/2017 5:37 PM, Cedric Lemarchand wrote:
> Hum ... I would say that ram is really expensive right now ! 
> In response to the OP, an old rule was to provision double ram as swap,
> actually you could put the half, or nothing.  
> From my point of view, swap only helps in the way it retards OOM killer
> process and as a sort of warning role because it slows a lot the whole OS. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> Cédric Lemarchand
> 
> Le 7 févr. 2017 à 17:11, Gambit15 <dougti+gluster at gmail.com
> <mailto:dougti+gluster at gmail.com>> a écrit :
> 
>> Gluster doesn't "require" swap any more than any other service, and
>> with the price of RAM today, most admins should even consider removing
>> swap altogether.
>>
>> D
>>
>> On 7 February 2017 at 10:56, Mark Connor <markconnor64 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:markconnor64 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I am planning in deploying about 18 bricks of about 50 TB bricks
>>     each spanning 8-10 servers. My servers are high end servers with
>>     128gb each. I have searched and cannot find any detail on swap
>>     partition requirements for the latest gluster server.  Can anyone
>>     offer me some advice?
>>
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