Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 18:51:01 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Robert Withrow" <witr@rwwa.com> Subject: Re: What swap for 1Gb memory? Message-ID: <199705092351.SAA08559@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net> of "Fri, 09 May 1997 13:01:27 EDT." <199705091658.MAA01095@Radford.i-Plus.net>
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> >Somone was boasting (-;) about their 1Gb memory FreeBSD system. > How > >much swap do you configure for such a system? > > hmm... none? That may not be wise. Back in the days of 2.0.5, or 2.1.0, I upgraded this system from 16M w/ 32M swap to 48M RAM. Forgot to add swap. And it died in "make world" when it ran out of core. Then I added my swap partition and re-executed "make world" while watching memory use on another virtual console with top. Never did see more than 400k or so swapped. Of course I didn't sit there for hours (3 or 4 hours, back then, same system now takes 7) and watch it altho the original failure happened fairly quickly. I'd guess even a 1G RAM system would work best with a little swap, say 64M, if for no other reason than to initialize the same virtual memory paths everyone else has. But that's only superstitious guessing. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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