From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 9:47:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from travelers.mail.cornell.edu (TRAVELERS.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU [132.236.56.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D67814F23 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:47:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc26@cornell.edu) Received: from travelers.mail.cornell.edu (travelers.mail.cornell.edu [132.236.56.13]) by travelers.mail.cornell.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA13216; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:45:43 -0400 (EDT) From: cjc26@cornell.edu Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:45:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: cjc26@travelers.mail.cornell.edu To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: "James F. Young" , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: swap size with 256mb ram(newbie) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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