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Re: [Xen-users] SWAP in domU

To: "Jordi Espasa Clofent" <jespasac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] SWAP in domU
From: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:38:05 -0500
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent
<jespasac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've seen that domUs are unstable if I don't setting up a swap partition; it
> seems that domUs without swap are works fine until a high load situation.
> Under high load, the domUs with swap are more stables than domUs ones
> without it.
>
> ¿Why?


try to setup a server with limited ram and no swap.  as soon as you
put some load on it, some processes will be killed.


-- 
Javier
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