Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:41:08 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: Roland Jay Roberts <jay@map.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, blair@strech.cyber-naut.com Subject: Re: Too much swap????? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951211093847.17840B-100000@wedge.cc.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0tDyq5-003uVLC@wormhole>
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On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Roland Jay Roberts wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 1995 19:31:17 -0700 you wrote: > > >Is there such a thing as 'too much swap space'? I am running FreeBSD 2.1 on 8 >megs of ram (yeah, I know, it sucks). I was reading somewhere (don't know >where), that if you have too much swap space, it works against the system. > > Not sure if this is true or not, but I've heard that the swapp > partition should be at least twice the size of physical RAM in the > machine. Probably better if the swap partition is > 2*RAM... I have 16MB RAM and 32 MB swap and keep running out. The 32MB swap partition is a hangover from when I had 8MB RAM... one day I'll have to bite the bullet and increase my swap space. > > 8 Megs isn't bad if you're only doing text mode (which is how I'm > running FreeBSD), but for X - add more. > > // ------------------------------------- | |\ _,,,---,,_ > // Roland Jay Roberts - Team OS/2 - | ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ > // Internet: jay@map.com | |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' > // FidoNet: Roland Roberts @ 1:321/305.5 | '---''(_/--' `-'\_) > > ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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