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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:15:49 +0100
From:      Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   16GB RAM -> Swap?
Message-ID:  <20080313131549.GA7984@aurora.oekb.co.at>

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Hi,

I've got a Blade-system with 16GB RAM, but "only" one 140GB
harddisk. My question is about swap-space: Traditional knowledge
recommends swap = 2*RAM. This would mean 32GB swap (!).

Should I really go for 32GB swap space? Or will e.g. 16GB (= RAM-size)
be enough? 

Please note, that I don't do kernel debugging etc. on this machine -
just a production machine used for network monitoring (Mrtg, nfsen,
cacti)

TIA for any clue,
-ewald





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