From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 14:15:15 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 8BB5637B405 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spin.web.net (spin.web.net [192.139.37.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E289943E4A for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@web.net) Received: by spin.web.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 46F7412E5BF; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:15:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:15:07 -0400 From: Rob Ellis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <20020731211506.GN22253@web.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Rob Ellis , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca> <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> 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 > > 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... there was some disagreement about that in that freebsd-hackers thread: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=268723+271430+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020714.freebsd-hackers > > in the meantime, 1GB ram + .5GB swap still seems like lots? > > Depends on how much virtual address space you're using at once. yes. it would be nice to know ballpark requirements for different types of servers / what kind of capacities you get with freebsd and various hardware configurations. - rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message