From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 9:48:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.203.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC737151E9 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:48:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA46445; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:48:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:48:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian X-Sender: bri@adsl-216-102-203-44.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net To: cjc26@cornell.edu Cc: Zhihui Zhang , "James F. Young" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: swap size with 256mb ram(newbie) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd probably recommend trying it with 256 mb swap, starting all the typical stuff you do, then examining swap usage via top or other methodology. Bri On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 cjc26@cornell.edu wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > I set bsd up using the automatic settings which defaulted to double my > > > physical ram. I am trying to determine if a 500+mb swap is actually > > > necessary with that much or if I can just make one thats is linux style > > > (e.g equal to my physical mem of 256) > > > > Making the swap space twice as large as your memory is a thumb of rule, > > which is said in many CS text books I believe. > > And probably not a good rule to follow for >128M or so, especially if > you're not using your machine as a heavy duty server or something. Why > don't you just try it with 256M of swap, see how it works. > > -- > cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ > main(q){6-q&&main(q+1),putchar(67+3*(19%q-q/4));} > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message