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Linux: Should You Use Twice the Amount of Ram as Swap Space?

by Vivek Gite · 52 comments

Linux and other Unix-like operating systems use the term “swap” to describe both the act of moving memory pages between RAM and disk, and the region of a disk the pages are stored on. It is common to use a whole partition of a hard disk for swapping. However, with the 2.6 Linux kernel, swap files are just as fast as swap partitions. Now, many admins (both Windows and Linux/UNIX) follow an old rule of thumb that your swap partition should be twice the size of your main system RAM. Let us say I’ve 32GB RAM, should I set swap space to 64 GB? Is 64 GB of swap space really required? How big should your Linux / UNIX swap space be?

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MySQL Proxy Load balancing and Failover Tutorial

by Vivek Gite · 4 comments

MySQL Proxy is a simple and new program that sits between your client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze or transform their communication. Its flexibility allows for a wide variety of use cases, including:
a) Load balancing
b) Failover
c) Query analysis
d) Query filtering and modification
e) and many more…
MySQL Proxy tutorial
Oreilly has published a nice tutorial using [...]

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