Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:40:40 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> To: snott <skye@f4.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maximum swap size? Message-ID: <486960E8.5010108@cwis.biz> In-Reply-To: <18204938.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <18204938.post@talk.nabble.com>
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snott wrote: > Is there a maximum swap size limitation? I'm using a 64-bit arch and only > seem to get about 32GB of usable swap out of a 250GB disk (all of /dev/ad6) > > Thanks, Skye > > # uname -a > FreeBSD XX 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008 > root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > # > # bsdlabel ad6s1 > # /dev/ad6s1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > b: 488392002 0 swap > c: 488392002 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't > edit > # > # swapctl -hl > Device: 1048576-blocks Used: > /dev/ad4s1b 4094 0 > /dev/ad6s1b 32768 0 > > My first question is, why are you partitioning more than 2x your RAM? I highly doubt you have 16GB of RAM.
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