Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:11:25 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap space Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050503130925.1c479500@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com>
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At 11:32 AM 5/3/2005, Chris Knipe wrote: >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? There are practical limits to how much swap you can or want to have on your system. Take a look at this for more info http://kerneltrap.org/node/323?PHPSESSID=9c6e97871e0d3a3632de7ccff346b0c6 -Glenn >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' >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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