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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