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Swap on VPS with SSD storage

Discussion in 'Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting' started by viralpoet, Jun 27, 2017.

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  1. Jun 27, 2017 #1
    viralpoet

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    Nearly got caught out with this in the instructions as my current VPS has SSD storage.

    Optimally, for KVM/Xen/VMWare or dedicated you should configure your server with at least 1GB to 2GB swap space if possible.

    Fortunately I found this on another hosting site
    "We do not recommend enabling swap on DigitalOcean or any other provider that utilizes SSD storage."

    How To Add Swap on CentOS 7 | DigitalOcean
     
  2. Jun 27, 2017 #2
    eva2000

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    Nope you should always create a swap disk even if you have ssd storage
     
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    Hi I read the same post regarding not creating swap on SSD. I am interested in knowing why you recommend so against DO, @eva2000? Thank you.
     
  4. Feb 17, 2018 #4
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    If you run out of memory without swap, you're screwed :D
     
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