Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 02:24:01 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <20140722162401.GA91063@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org>
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On Tue 2014-07-22 17:05:12 UTC+0100, Arthur Chance (freebsd@qeng-ho.org) wrote: > I'm getting a new machine with 32 GB of memory. The old "twice > physical memory" sizing seems ridiculous, so how big should I make > swap? Do I even need swap with this much memory? Probably not. Of course it depends on your workload. You can always add swap later if you really need to, but running without swap is no problem. I run a FreeBSD 9.3 amd64 server with 4 GB physical and 2 GB swap. top(1) tells me just 62 MB is used, presumably just for housekeeping. Regards Andrew
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