Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:45:43 -0400 (EDT) From: cjc26@cornell.edu To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: "James F. Young" <napalmski@home.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap size with 256mb ram(newbie) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.990818124234.3701A-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990818103406.21929C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > I set bsd up using the automatic settings which defaulted to double my > > physical ram. I am trying to determine if a 500+mb swap is actually > > necessary with that much or if I can just make one thats is linux style > > (e.g equal to my physical mem of 256) > > Making the swap space twice as large as your memory is a thumb of rule, > which is said in many CS text books I believe. And probably not a good rule to follow for >128M or so, especially if you're not using your machine as a heavy duty server or something. Why don't you just try it with 256M of swap, see how it works. -- cliff crawford http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cjc26/ main(q){6-q&&main(q+1),putchar(67+3*(19%q-q/4));} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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