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From: Paul S. Gumerman (psg_at_cooldog.com)
Date: Thu 17 Mar 2005 - 01:21:26 GMT


Herbert ...

>memory might be the issue here, after all it means less than 50MB
>for each vserver, that might easily drag you into swapping which
>very easily gets you into trashing ...
>

While "trashing" is not a bad description of the consequences, the word
is "thrashing" .....

<REALLY REALLY BIG GRIN!!>

Paul

Herbert Poetzl wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:00:55PM +0100, Werner Schalk wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Herbert,
>>
>>thank you for your answer.
>>
>>
>>
>>>memory might be the issue here, after all it means less than 50MB
>>>for each vserver, that might easily drag you into swapping which
>>>very easily gets you into trashing ...
>>>
>>>
>>Is there a way of setting up a swap file for every vserver so that
>>they do not run out of memory?
>>
>>
>
>well, you can have as many swap files as the OS (and your disk
>space) permits, but that won't help you with the memory ...
>
>in other words, if you run out of _memory_, then the system
>will start using the _swap_ space and that will slow down
>everything, maybe leading to trashing which is not what you
>want to have on a vserver host ...
>
>don't forget, the disks are nowadays a few powers slower than
>the memory, which is already a few powers behind the cpu ;)
>
>HTH,
>Herbert
>
>
>
>>Thanks a lot again and bye,
>>Werner.
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