From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Thu 17 Mar 2005 - 02:00:48 GMT
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:21:26PM -0500, Paul S. Gumerman wrote:
> 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!!>
yeah, non native english speaker, guilty as charged ...
thanks for the clarifications ...
best,
Herbert
> 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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