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Date:      Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:10:14 -0800
From:      Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
To:        Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap space - max size
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20040302200517.02d38ed8@66.125.189.29>
In-Reply-To: <20040302220558.R72279@floyd.gnulife.org>
References:  <20040302220558.R72279@floyd.gnulife.org>

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At 08:09 PM 3/2/2004, Jamie wrote:
 >   Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if
 > you have 2 Gb of ram?

4GB is the virtual address limit, not the physical address limit (which is 
higher) However if you're swapping a lot on a 2GB system then you're 
biggest problem is that the entire system is being dragged down to the 
bandwidth of disk spindle. Not good.

--Chuck




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