Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 16:12:47 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: fullermd@narcissus.ml.org (The Devil Himself) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, rewt@i-Plus.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, witr@rwwa.com Subject: Re: What swap for 1Gb memory? Message-ID: <199705102112.QAA03938@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970510112626.23154B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> from The Devil Himself at "May 10, 97 11:28:05 am"
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> > > > I'd guess even a 1G RAM system would work best with a little swap, say 64M, > > if for no other reason than to initialize the same virtual memory paths > > everyone else has. But that's only superstitious guessing. > > I know this is true with BSDi; I'm not sure about FreeBSD, but.... > I've heard that it's important/necessary to have at least as much swap as > RAM, because if the kernel panics, it dumps a complete image of memory > into the swap space, to be recovered on reboot for examination, and it can > do bad thigs if there's not enough swap. > How bad, I don't know, but I don't think I'd want to find out... > Because of VM system issues, you really do need to have at least as much swap as RAM. You can get by without it in limited situations, but those are anecdotal. John
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