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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:47:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      snott <skye@f4.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Maximum swap size?
Message-ID:  <18205925.post@talk.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <486960E8.5010108@cwis.biz>
References:  <18204938.post@talk.nabble.com> <486960E8.5010108@cwis.biz>

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Trust me, I really do want 250GB (or more) of swap.   I'm using swap as a
backing store for an HTTP reverse proxy for very large cache sets.  Its more
efficient to just use the vm layer for LRU object management than to create
a huge mmap'd file with file buf caching.

Skye



Ryan Coleman wrote:
> 
> snott wrote:
>> Is there a maximum swap size limitation?  I'm using a 64-bit arch and
>> only
>> seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of
>> /dev/ad6)
>>
>> Thanks, Skye
> 
> My first question is, why are you partitioning more than 2x your RAM? I 
> highly doubt you have 16GB of RAM.
> 

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