Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 20:32:54 +0200 From: "Chris Knipe" <savage@savage.za.org> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: swap space Message-ID: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com>
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Hi, Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more than likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications (mainly perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap. We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not know accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are going to be (especially not that it would be this high). Obviously reinstalling the entire OS / Applications is not really a option. We may want to install a dedicated 40GB just for swap... Would this be advisable, or will it actually slow the system down? And to what extend? We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. Thanks in advance. -- Chris. I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by..." - Douglas Adams, 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
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