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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:59:33 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Cc:        polachok@narod.ru, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: out of swap space
Message-ID:  <20050707235933.GA19467@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0507071453280.19319@spew.ugcs.caltech.edu>
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:57:01PM -0700, Jon Dama wrote:
> It is also it is worthwhile to remember that on i386 you can use
> roughly >20GB of swap space.  swap + ram need not sum to less than 4GB
> common misunderstandings aside.
>=20
> If your memory load warrants larger swap allocations, you should just bump
> that number up.

Better to add more RAM or reduce or optimize the workload - as soon as
you load your machine enough that it begins heavily using swap your
machine performance will fall in the toilet.

Kris

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