inbound - 12:08 am on Jul 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

Thanks, turning off swapping will be given thought - I gues I'll need to find out what happens if the OS then runs out of RAM in that case (I'm presuming it would simply not allow new processes to start - meaning it could get very nasty, I understand that many programs require memory to be allocated for individual tasks like HTTP connections in apache - although 8GB or more of system RAM would need a lot of small allocations to make it fall over; especially if the speed at which tasks are completed is very quick)

Does anyone know exactly what happens when you turn of swapping?