From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-07-27T15:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Faster Marshaling?

Greg Willits wrote:
>>> - the scaling is such that more RAM per box is costly enough to pay for
>>>    development of a more RAM efficient design
>> What about more swap per box? It might be slower, maybe not, but it seems
>> like the easiest thing to try.
> 
> More "swap"? You mean virtual memory? I may be wrong, but I am assuming 
> regardless of how effective VM is, I can easily saturate real RAM, and 
> it's been my experience that systems just don't like all of their real 
> RAM full.

More swap might help, if you assign one ruby process per data set. Then 
switching data sets means just letting the vm swap in a different 
process, if it needs to.

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