From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 10 11:11:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00907 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 11:11:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from wormhole (root@wormhole.map.com [204.71.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00902 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 11:11:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 09 Dec 95 13:59:42 EST From: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) Reply-To: jay@map.com (Roland Jay Roberts) To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: blair@strech.cyber-naut.com X-Mailer: Roland Roberts's PMMail v1.1 Subject: Re: Too much swap????? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. 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 | '---''(_/--' `-'\_)