Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:37:58 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <15658.51990.340513.416553@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20020708220517.K945-100000@april.chuckr.org> References: <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20020708220517.K945-100000@april.chuckr.org>
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>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> writes: >> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough >> swap to be able to catch a core dump and not much more, >> i.e. slightly more than 1G swap. Chuck> Probably a good compromise, it just feels silly to go for a G Chuck> of swap when I will probably never use more than 256M (and that Chuck> not very often). I mostly compile, edit, and web-browse. Chuck> Thanks for the confirmation (I suspected this answer, but I Chuck> feel better now about it). Personally, I have an old 6gig drive on which I have a dump partition (it doesn't need to be active swap). 6gig drives are too slow to be useful these days. I generally allocate 4 swap partitions on fast drives where each is about 1/2 of memory (2x total). Speed of swap is as important as size of swap. DAve. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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