Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:44:23 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: swap partition Message-ID: <20161230114423.77ba806afc170cbe7d594046@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20161229210502.c5c2704f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20161229162919.34694.qmail@ary.lan> <1483032642.96075.3.camel@yandex.com> <20161229210502.c5c2704f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:05:02 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:30:42 -0500, Stari Karp wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 16:29 +0000, John Levine wrote: > > > In article <1483012420.95172.9.camel@yandex.com> you write: > > > > > > > > I like to increase swap partition ... > > > Why? Most BSD systems hardly use swap space at all. There's plenty > > > of paging but that's mostly from the files that back the memory. > > > > > > R's, > > > John > > > > I am using Synth and I have 8 GB memory and swap partition was made > > defaut 3.6 GB and when I built LibreOFFice and Firefox for example > > together than going swap to 100% > > (swap_pager: out of swap space > > kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(5): failed) > > and because that I think to increase swap partition. > > That's really "impressive"... Those are two of the most memory intensive builds in the ports, advice to OP - don't do them both together. > I had to open 70+ tabs with "Flash" content running in order > to get Opera start using swap - on a PC with 2 GB RAM, plus > 2 GB swap partition. I made a terminal capture for this > spectacular event: You don't have to try anything like so hard with any more modern browser (I like opera - it's a pity there's so much that doesn't work properly in it now) I doubt you'd get to 20 tabs with Firefox in 2GB. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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