RE: [Xen-users] Q: swap and where?

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ulrich Windl
> Sent: 17 October 2006 15:36
> To: Petersson, Mats
> Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Q: swap and where?
> 
> On 17 Oct 2006 at 15:52, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > But you'll need 20GB of space (per guest) somewhere 
> whichever way you do
> > it - unless of course you have some special knowledge about 
> the problem
> > that explains that this will only happen predictably and 
> sometimes so
> > you can decide beforehand that you only need (say) a total 
> of 40GB to
> > hold 4 guests, because only two at a time will need 20GB... 
> If that's
> > the case, perhaps Xen is a bad choice. But if you don't 
> know when and
> 
> The software vendor says it needs it, but in my experience it 
> never actually needs 
> it...

Ok, so you can then use a smaller swap and only enlarge it if the system
crashes with "out of swap". That should work... 

--
Mats



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