Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:48:08 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Schuh <michael.schuh@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Maximum Swapsize Message-ID: <200604111048.09905.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060410161713.GA48094@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1dbad3150604100913hff9fc4dsb125ea541675f992@mail.gmail.com> <20060410161713.GA48094@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > > Hello @all, > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top > > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is > > limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ? > > It's limited to 16GB on i386 (or maybe 16GB per swap device, I > forget). You need a patch if you want to use this much, to avoid > deadlocks - but nothing limits it out of the box. Of course if you actually use this much swap your machine will be incompara= bly=20 slow.. The old "swap size =3D 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have= a=20 very special application. IMO if you end up using more than 512MB of swap you need more RAM, or less= =20 applications :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEOwPR5ZPcIHs/zowRAg8VAJ92mRR6zfN3XxUfNZXLHND8WevoLQCeOGpG ChBPqM9osXSWSa/go1AjimU= =g6Xi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh--
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