Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:39:21 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Childers, Richard" <RCHILDER@hamquist.com>, "'H. Eckert '" <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de>, "'freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4 Swap partitions limit (was Re: RE: Little question (offtopic)) Message-ID: <14257.50009.162402.381699@trooper.velocet.ca> In-Reply-To: <xzp4si6uvqb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990811110026.21362A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> <xzp4si6uvqb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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>>>>> "Dag-Erling" == Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> writes: Dag-Erling> The only cases in which I've ever actually used swap on a Dag-Erling> box with 128 MB RAM or more are: Since people are posting on this topic, I generally configure a workstation for myself (these days) with 1Gig of swap. My current workstation runs for a numder of dumb X-terminals as well as my own display. I have 256M of memory. There are 355 processes running on the machine... and... Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/da0s1b 1048576 296128 752192 28% Interleaved /dev/wd1s1b 1048576 291128 757192 28% Interleaved Total 2096640 587256 1509384 28% One curious aspect of FreeBSD that I havn't explained to my own satisfaction is why it appears to consume more swap than linux. I see a lot of linux installations running on 32 or 64M of swap, but I'm loathe to set up BSD boxes with less than 256M of swap. Not that I have scientific evidence of this, but it has been a general feeling of a number of people I know. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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