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Re:Redis latency spikes and the 99th percentile by giuliano108 on Thursday October 30, 2014 @04:08PM (#8535514)
Memory fragmentation seems to play a role too. Even if you have (barely) enough free RAM, machines can start swapping and a Redis server in that state is bound to wake you up at night... :(
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Re:Redis latency spikes and the 99th percentile by xxs on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:26PM (#8535924)
If you run a server with anything but "swapoff -a" you're doing it wrong. (or even having any swap partition in /etc/fstab). If the server has to swap, get more RAM or scale your stuff out but never swap.
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