From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 11:58:22 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 3154137B401 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 024B743E65 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:58:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6VIwHOQ089664 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:58:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Zyfp-0001hw-00 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:58:17 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 31 Jul 2002 13:58:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> Message-ID: <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 At 2002-07-31T17:17:28Z, Rob Ellis writes: > 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. IANA kernel hacker, but I've read that you should allocate at least twice the amount of RAM for the main reason that FreeBSD's VM system is optimized for that amount. It will still run with less swap, but it will use less-optimal algorithms and/or settings. -- Kirk Strauser The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message