From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 22:31:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7590937B406 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA21184; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:31:55 -0700 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:31:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8.billschoolcraft.com To: Jacob Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2G RAM: how much swap space? In-Reply-To: <20010622165142.D29638@berta.essoc.net> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Fri, 22 Jun 2001 it looks like Jacob composed: J--> J-->Fellow Daemonheads, J--> J-->What is the recommended partitioning scheme with regard to swap space J-->for a web server (2 1-GHz PIII; *2G RAM*; 2 9G SCSI drives). Principle J-->apps that the server will be running are Apache/mod_perl & MySQL. J--> J-->The defaults given by the FreeBSD install are 4099M swap on each J-->drive, and this seems excessive considering half the disk space would J-->be used for swap. J--> J-->TIA for tips/insight. J--> J--> I was just working with a (Sparc) Solaris-7 customer today and did confirm that with SUN, that was of course NOT on a FreeBSD box but thought I'd just confirm that it's not that unusual but recommended. You mentioned "on each drive", does that mean your going to end up with 8 gigs of swap ? If so then "yes" I'd say that's a little steep. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message