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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:05:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Kirchner <davidk@accretivetg.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Calculating swap file size
Message-ID:  <20011127170344.W15780-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <15363.11945.410356.244254@guru.mired.org>

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> The VM algorithms aren't quite as efficient if you have less than 2x
> ram size.

I've read this in places before (man tuning I believe), but I haven't yet
found the reason for it. I read through the 4.4BSD book's chapter on
memory management but I don't recall seeing anything about it. Is there a
place where this is documented further?


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