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Fri, 14 Feb 2020 07:10:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:10:03 +0000 From: tech-lists To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting Message-ID: <20200214121003.GB39057@bastion.zyxst.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20200213150229.GC14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <20200213155256.GD14144@bastion.zyxst.net> <1090523a-377c-9412-5db1-38e825e35956@mm.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1090523a-377c-9412-5db1-38e825e35956@mm.st> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48Jsf23ZpPz4TqY X-Spamd-Bar: -------- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=zyxst.net header.s=fm1 header.b=aMyU9KKP; dkim=pass header.d=messagingengine.com header.s=fm2 header.b=Ed2CBOHR; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of tech-lists@zyxst.net designates 64.147.123.24 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=tech-lists@zyxst.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-8.20 / 15.00]; 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charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 07:06:54PM +0300, yp@mm.st wrote: >Now this is something I wanted to ask as well, as I didn't find=20 >anything really describing what needs to be done for large (not really=20 >so this days, 32 and higher) RAM systems -- I have a system with 64GB=20 >RAM and adding a 64GB swap partition makes system unhappy (I don't=20 >remember the exact message). With minidumps and all, what size it=20 >should be so that dump is guaranteed to be saved? A while ago I tried this (one big swap partition) and experienced the same. This is why I went with several swap partitions. I think the maximum swap a= s a partition is 32GB and I'm guessing the reason it's like that is down to some variable buried in the code. --=20 J. --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEE8n3tWhxW11Ccvv9/s8o7QhFzNAUFAl5Gji0ACgkQs8o7QhFz NAXjcA/8CT6MdBHwuZX+lLQq7nzOXcBp+5hSCgMg32+O0nLbowG8ytHZzYY/3v+7 EQNfyRv9XNn3sVWGtVagJv8LpM9lEXRuScUymWMu297sBQ4ON1o8h//RgHyLU6DO TnyIvCQr7iH9Hk33idBO5VxavZWa6aXJGDHoEuAEaSh5wrEMFr6Vt8uWnq+U6WCH ilsnJ0TVZ7hGaLj9WwxF4T/WDUtrLjf61SnhPSU8anjisXjFxn3I67FqSBMN7sbQ QY0DjB6dG/VqJfjAtLXAMwhh6t2Bi5CvjRQ/DpF7JX3SC+TvAJ0fTy6rgpSW7Ivo tgy0FRBZO+LBMiK9AgPaJId3CBEDY1Uy0OE35xsc8XDDv+PhN8S9DQouv7poS1Jw MrcgPF7QFTmcr860cRgCeMk+JJlgP/3RUjO0pVZzMhdU6C3Qe52XIpb+wrebqNg2 68kXGG/jw3Q7/fQm7z7uYjhT/pke8g3HwsEsgnS5nPu0eYKaRNKeUVlF1ggT4AHx dmF9m3W4LG9qPFjBAjntCFKo3li/DE0k0L2zen3aAh3vmRmDr5jF2uxDIUwLzuyz a45yMlkp17oZ6wDP+UWtXCYvcdeWqBZzScrto+xbC2YeTXsW1UKuonFE7jE0jfqv unOQn938XBoNhSxLD3ECFv9dmkyYtSKD8Ybzj32W/R6ygg+GkN4= =lgTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Pd0ReVV5GZGQvF3a--