From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 21:02:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C9816A4CF for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 21:02:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB6A43D54 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 21:02:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1DT4Wy-0004J0-Eq for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 03 May 2005 15:02:12 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) In-Reply-To: <20050503204542.GB10776@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> <20050503204542.GB10776@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-Id: From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:02:11 -0600 To: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) Subject: Re: swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:02:19 -0000 On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make > allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you > ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). I understand that people recommend as much swap as you have ram or more. However, is this required and why? I have a dual opteron system running i386 5.3-release (with released patches) and it has 4GB RAM and only 2GB of swap, which is hardly ever touched, and when it is, just in small amounts. Why is this a problem? (If it ever needs the 2gb of swap I am in trouble as the load at that time would be sky high and the machine not really responsive anyway) best Chad >