From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 4 23:24:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79CC16A402 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alohaguy123@yahoo.com) Received: from web53602.mail.yahoo.com (web53602.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62E3913C4A7 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alohaguy123@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 2954 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Feb 2007 23:24:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=QTgztrZUg0/yHJO6OLLN7fzSzPfxzESa9jYjMLKKaXak5Bc+WD9IwHQ5lOvoTwIteEFvIjhqLKfAQr9jNTmC8di41JdpaIjRGwOrAm0HIJ1Xi+Q8s0N6ARtlPB1Bf4uxhvfauMjQ+fPr+/DRm3/B7t8Vw4oaLefIkbGDirN0wMc= ; Message-ID: <20070204232439.2952.qmail@web53602.mail.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 8xpojV4VM1ltRE1zKTIaVXPmX3VtbTZnT12mKI_mmp_1U5V2_7nAbDAqem.Oe6Yn3OBDavWir4AIf5ma81nOOXQqALbH_aoxxoXvIZhUFnx0uK65LctjADrEVak1nicoyR8g6WQg.R5kYhmfveSeg_by Received: from [208.201.244.225] by web53602.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:24:39 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/368.3 YahooMailWebService/0.6.132.7 Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 15:24:39 -0800 (PST) From: Aloha Guy To: Scott Long MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:24:41 -0000 What I actually meant was, I know in the old days, if you had 128MB, you wa= nt a 256MB swap but with 2GB RAM, isn't 4GB going to be overkill for a swap= or are you saying that a 2GB swap will work? I'm still lost on the ratio = since I thought the 2x was only if you had like small amounts of RAM.=0A=0A= John=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Scott Long =0ATo: Aloha Guy =0ACc: questions@freebsd.org; c= urrent@freebsd.org=0ASent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 2:28:47 PM=0ASubject: R= e: swap file vs swap partition=0A=0A=0AAloha Guy wrote:=0A> Thanks for the = input. You do have good points. The only issue with =0A> swap partitions = is that it seems like you need to increase it everytime =0A> you increase t= he physical memory. Is there a swap partition size limit =0A> that pretty = much will handle anything and setting a number larger than =0A> that will r= eally not offer anything?=0A> =0A> John=0A=0A=0AProcessors and memory have= vastly outpaced the speed of disks; any=0Aamount of swapping is going to b= e percieved as being very slow and=0Asomething that should be avoided. Sin= ce RAM is also very cheap now,=0Amost people just load enough RAM into thei= r system to handle their load,=0Aand then configure enough swap to hold a c= rashdump of that RAM. You=0Aalways want swap so that you can handle unexpe= cted spikes in load=0Awithout crashing, but it's less of an integral piece = of normal system=0Aoperation these days.=0A=0AScott=0A=0A=0A =0A___________= _________________________________________________________________________= =0AIt's here! Your new message! =0AGet new email alerts with the free Yaho= o! Toolbar.=0Ahttp://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/