From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 10:58:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE8337B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spin.web.net (spin.web.net [192.139.37.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2410F43F2F for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@web.net) Received: by spin.web.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 394CB12E560; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:48:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:48:26 -0400 From: Rob Ellis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <20020731174826.GI22253@web.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Ellis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i'm setting up a new machine, currently with 256M swap partitions on 2 disks, so 512M of swap, which seems like enough... it is going to be a server, but i can't imagine it's going to need 1.5GB of memory...? if crash dumps are enabled, maybe you need the extra swap? but they're off by default and i don't see turning them on. - rob On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:31:30AM -0600, Colin Harford wrote: > On 7/31/02 11:17 AM, "Rob Ellis" wrote: > > > if you have a gigabyte of ram, does the 2 x ram calculation > > for the swap partition (from the fbsd handbook) still make sense? > > thanks. > > > > - rob > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > All depends on what you use the machine for.... Desktop, big deal > But if its a mission critical server, add some, bescides HD space is pretty > cheap now. > > > > >From one machine that doesn't quite have 1 GB of ram.... > > last pid: 30202; load averages: 0.06, 0.01, 0.00 > up 4+09:29:04 13:20:58 > 56 processes: 1 running, 55 sleeping > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6%idle > Mem: 24M Active, 169M Inact, 92M Wired, 8K Cache, 99M Buf, 592M Free > Swap: 1776M Total, 1776M Free > > > My desktop is offline, else I'd show you its stats, its got 1.25 GB of ram, > and 1 GB of swap.... Things just fly.... I don't think I've ever pushed it > into swap, either way, its better safe than sorry to have some. > > > > Colin Harford     > >                                        > Systems and Network Administrator      Apple Product Professional > =================================      > Computer and Network Support          > University of Alberta Students' Union                   > Phone: (780) 492-4241   Fax:  (780) 492-4643 > http://www.su.ualberta.ca > > > "I sense much NT in you, NT leads to Blue Screen. > Blue Screen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. > NT is the path to the darkside." > - Unknown Unix Jedi > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message