From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 5 23: 7:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D72D914C0C for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id IAA02342; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 08:08:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11uroY-0001fk-00; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:40:02 +0100 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:40:02 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap hangs machine Message-ID: <19991206074002.B5763@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:24:24PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Dec-99 Alexandr Listopad wrote: > 11M free of mem, and 130M free of swap.... ;) And my FreeBSD never used > swap... as I see on "top". > > Question: why it should be "...2x your RAM.." ??? It is essentially an old rule of thumb but it should be adjusted according to your site's requirements. It was also said that above 64M RAM swap is not strictly necessary... and if you want to see examples of it being used, well, fire up Star Office and watch your free memory disappear:-) And this is only one user... I would imagine what it meant if 10 users tried to use it in the lab at the same time from the same machine... So much for applications being used over the Net:-) Cheers! Szilveszter ADAM -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Szilveszter ADAM * JATE Szeged * email: sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu * * Homepage : none * alternate email: cc@flanker.itl.net.ua * * Finger sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu for PGP key. * * I prefer using the door instead of Windows(tm)... * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message