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Linux Swap Explained: Do You Need It? (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Swap is super helpful if you’re running a web server on a 1GB RAM 2 CPU Linode instance!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Be careful with that

I think some providers prevent full usage of a VPS in the ToS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In this case the web server will temporarily exceed 1GB RAM and crash. It’s usually hovering around 700MB. I configured 4GB swap but I haven’t seen it use more than 1.5GB. I honestly doubt they would even have a way to know, but thanks for the warning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I guess you will find out

Its probably fine. Just make sure you have a backup outside of the cloud provider.

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