Samsung SSD 750 EVO v 850 EVO / Ubuntu

[The Natural Philosopher]

384Mbyte

Think there's a gig of swap.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Memory in a shared host virtual machine is NOT cheap :-(

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, I am not

[Bod]

People often think they need more ram than they actually do.

[Clive George]

So next question : is TNP's system running into swap? I'd expect it to not have to. If it's not, then it seems that TNP can indeed "afford the luxury" of a system not using its swap.

(I do get irritated by eg database software installs which complain that your swap file is too small. Yes, it's tiny, but that's not a problem because the server has 60G of memory...)

[The Natural Philosopher]

I need a gig to really be proof against DOS attacks. I have to actively block those

[The Natural Philosopher]

Oh it runs into swap OK especially if its under attack.

Then I have to fight to shut down the webserver and it can take minutes to get a login prompt

vps:~$ top

top - 21:32:09 up 270 days, 9:44, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.16, 0.33 Tasks: 124 total, 2 running, 121 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 19.2%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 53.0%id, 24.5%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si,

0.0%st Mem: 391680k total, 314636k used, 77044k free, 2804k buffers Swap: 917488k total, 117092k used, 800396k free, 129112k cached

[polygonum]

Made an amazing difference in an iMac. Like a new machine!

[Bod]

Yes it can make that sort of dramatic difference. Rod still won't believe it though ;-)