From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 13:22: 7 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 DC0C937B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138FE43E4A for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6VKLv4i023111 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:21:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6VKLujZ023108; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:21:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 31 Jul 2002 16:21:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca> Message-ID: <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: 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 Rob Ellis writes: > the consensus seems to be that if you want to be able to get > crash dumps, you need a single partition == to your memory 64k more than your memory, actually... > i think if there are problems with a machine crashing, it wouldn't > be hard to put an old ide drive in it, and configure for crash > dumps. Yes, or compile a custom kernel to recognize less RAM than you have swap space... > in the meantime, 1GB ram + .5GB swap still seems like lots? Depends on how much virtual address space you're using at once. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message