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On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:59 am, Jacob S wrote:
> I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It
> has 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same
> size as the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was
> that when swap is double the size of ram, the computer is almost
> totally unuseable for at least 30 minutes whenever the computer needs
> to clean out swap.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem, or is it safe for me to add
> another GB of swap?
>
> Also, I made the mistake of partitioning all the space on the hard
> drive, with only 1GB set aside for swap. How big of a performance hit
> would it be to use a swap file instead of a swap partition? Is there
> an easy (and safe!) way to resize partitions so that I could add in a
> second swap partition?
>
> TIA,
> Jacob

What is it that you're doing that would use up so much RAM and swap?  
Was the high swap usage expected?

Andrew Gould