RAM question for everyone!

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Jan 23 17:37:07 UTC 2009


Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> I'm really curious.
>>
> 
> SATA Hard drive speeds - 70 megs to 150 megs a second unless you're RAIDing
> DDR2 RAM speeds - 6000 megs a second and up.
> 
> If performance is a key issue, which I'm sure it is, you don't want swap.

No, you don't want to /have/ to use swap in normal production (this
means having enough RAM).  You still want to have swap for unforeseen
circumstances.

Matt Flaschen




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