Re: swap

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:15:31 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > I've part-time admin'd (contracted) a couple of systems that required
> > 128GB of swap during batch processing "middle of the night" setups.
> > Primarily because of the inner looping of some of the jobs and the
> > amount of "stored" info hanging in memory. Rather than fix the batch
> > processing system, which came from an AS400 (which originally was on an
> > IBM 36 system), the company suggested swap as a workaround.
> 
> How much memory and swap did the program have to play with on an AS400
> or 36?
> 
> To generalize the problem, given that the software can't be changed, at
> what point do you start to look at either a bigger single computer or a
> cluster that looks like a bigger computer?  For me its just an
> intelectual exercise; I went from a 486 with 32 MB swap to an Athlon
> with 1GB in a single bound.  That Xorg makes _that_ swap really burns me
> up.
> 
> Doug.

Xorg swaps with a GB? I run Xfce with 512MB and I rarely see swapping;
even on my 196MB machine I didn't see much swapping. What else are you
running besides X?

Celejar
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