From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 25 14:13:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE3552E for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:13:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388AE8FC0C for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0313E65EA for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:18:17 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=CzkzTP5U29nt vHWT5w+SKQ2Srno=; b=fYGsJKm01MGONINtDwrrxSLmuVLt8ifnPw04oK9zKCqH U02wo1KnyMBkaw2mR+ZgZp+uFzK5eRPVdd2uJ1XUK6ZYhm8Vaf9Uzh+BJckxR1ER q8SJwUp3q8StLBn1fwGlofT/m+5QBn3nxxRafuA0VhbR3P0sR0b4PCwyrhbAjeM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=EQp/hT UgehvWG0KTeNz68Z3hdvqOp3cOOYR6vknV8BoYJtFVrMi3BU7aQdZFz0IhCZTNOd NtAkqDO3T+pGRxJOWM0070iGn3ID8FCyFXO0UGvWzHKOcCYVG90spNfg1aBz4OC8 usxyCij4FrEI4dXUWP9CD8olchmgjFc8QOy1A= Received: from [192.168.2.12] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7373BE65D2 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:18:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <50B2279D.9020203@cran.org.uk> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:13:49 +0000 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Manually partitioning using gpart References: <1353842774.2508.18.camel@q> <20121125132930.3a417be5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20121125132930.3a417be5.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:13:53 -0000 On 25/11/2012 12:29, Polytropon wrote: > Won't be wrong; my understanding of the rule was "2 * size of > _possible_ RAM in the machine". But disk space is cheap, so > 8 G should be fine. But again, the requirement for the swap > partition depends on what you're doing with the machine and > what you're expecting (e. g. will you want to save kernel dumps > to the swap partition?). You probably want to stop following that rule some time before you get to 8 TB RAM (http://semiaccurate.com/2010/09/29/inphi-imbs-can-stuff-8tb-ram-system/) :) -- Bruce Cran