You are entirely right about OpenVZ I'm getting no love from the hosts and I really wish that they would advertise that this is the methods that they employ a bit more clearly but I guess you get what you get when you're in a pinch like we were when we went with this host.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Steven Stillaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@stillaway.net">steve@stillaway.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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With OpenVZ, you are not going to be able to add RAM and I am pretty
sure (99%) you are not going to be able to add SWAP.<br>
<br>
In an OpenVZ VPS your kernel is shared, but all of your individual
apps are isolated into it's own space and filesystem. You can
control your apps, but do make any kind of modifications to the
kernel that needs to be done on the master. So even if you create a
swapfile, it will not be added into the shared kernel and used at
all.<br>
<br>
You can check out this:
<a href="http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_systemwide_configuration" target="_blank">http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_systemwide_configuration</a> but it is kind
of complex.<br>
<br>
They have assigned 4GB of RAM that is dedicated for our use only.
The 4GB of burstable RAM is shared by all the VPS on the system and
allocated on an as required basis. Which means you can use it, but
if other people want to use it as well, it will get shared back and
forth.<br>
<br>
Basically if you need lots of RAM (more then 4G in this case) and
are really going to use it a VPS is probably not the way to go.<br>
<br>
By all means though. Turn off everything that you don't need to
free up more of your 4GB for your use.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<pre cols="72">- Steven</pre></font></span><div><div class="h5">
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On 02/11/11 4:18 AM, Colin K wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">I have a feeling that this host may bank on the fact
that we may never properly use all of our resources kindof like a
Gmail 7gigs thing Most people never use it thats why we can offer
it. Sort of thing.
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But were a top20 server for minecraft on some of the minecraft
server lists we get some pretty heavy loyal and regular traffic.<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Colin K
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin@void11.com" target="_blank">colin@void11.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">I'm not quite sure their company is @ <a href="http://redstonehost.com" target="_blank">http://redstonehost.com</a> they have a
rough in description of their VPS's that they provide.
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<div>The main needs for a minecraft server is high
availability of ram, and a decent internet connection.
Basically it seems that the java minecraft is based on
requires alot of iops from the disks for sending "Chunk"
data (sections of the world) to the clients.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at
9:35 AM, Raul Suarez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rarsa@yahoo.com" target="_blank">rarsa@yahoo.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div><span>It is possible to resize a
partition with a system up but only if
you can unmount that partition. Not if
it is your primary partition.</span></div>
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<span></span></div>
<div><span>From the command line you can
use parted, or from a graphical
environment gparted or qtparted.</span></div>
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<div><span>Based on the answer from your
provider. Why do you need to add the
swap space and why they don't like it?<br>
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<div>Is it at all possible to
resize a partition in centos and
add a swap and enable it while a
server is online.
<div>if so what would commands
of such an action look like?</div>
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