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Whatever was the real cause for your issues, Linode's default small swap space is a plague. A system starts to misbehave much gently if there is enough swap.
by antirez 14y ago
Whatever was the real cause for your issues, Linode's default small swap space is a plague. A system starts to misbehave much gently if there is enough swap.
- zorlem 14y agoFor a production server I think that the opposite is a better _general_ advice - reduce the available swap, because if your server gets to a point to need it, the performance will suffer so much that your server will become completely unresponsive. Having less swap will allow the OOM to kill the run-away process and allow you to login and fix the problem instead of rebooting the server or waiting in vain for it to recover by itself. edit: typo
- X-Istence 14y agoDrop your swap on a separate drive from your main drive that is serving your data. Solves the problem nicely.
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