Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:31:24 -0500 From: Chris <chris@bsdjunk.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <20140723123123.GA36905@bsdjunk.com> In-Reply-To: <201407231109.21577.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <53CE8F62.8090701@tysdomain.com> <201407231109.21577.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:09:21AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 06:20:50 PM Littlefield, Tyler > wrote: > > > That number was always weird and never made much sense. > > What swap ultimately comes down to though is you, the > > user. If you foresee needing more than 32 gb ram, feel > > free to add more swap space. If you don't, maybe 8 gb or > > so just to be on the safe side. If you really need 32 gb > > swap space, I'd recommend just getting more ram, as that > > will be much, much faster than thrashing. > > I've always kept swap at no more than 4GB, whether I have > 256MB or 256GB of RAM :-). > > Of course, swap is very important when doing VM's, but > that's another issue entirely :-). > > Mark. Normally it's 2 times amount of ram in the system so in your case it would be a swap of 64G http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html#configtuning-initial -- Washington, D.C: Wasting your money since 1810. FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p3 Mutt 1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Hostname: chris.bsdjunk.com.
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