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Whether the vswap use disk [message #43388]

Sat, 03 September 2011 00:21

conlintonb
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Registered: July 2011

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Whether the vswap use disk
Or only memory

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Re: Whether the vswap use disk [message #43393 is a reply to message #43388]

Sat, 03 September 2011 20:00

azagzin
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Registered: May 2008
Location: Vilnius

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The difference between normal swap and vswap is that with vswap no actual disk I/O usually occurs. Instead, a container is artificially slowed down, to emulate the effect of the real swapping. Actual swap out occurs only if there is a global memory shortage on the system.

please read this first:
http://wiki.openvz.org/VSwap

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Re: Whether the vswap use disk [message #43399 is a reply to message #43393]

Sun, 04 September 2011 23:18

conlintonb
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Registered: July 2011

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So do not use disk

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