Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:16:47 -0400 From: "Mark Dickey" <mark@bestweb.net> To: "J. Han" <hjh@best.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: large swap to ram ratio Message-ID: <01bdb3e9$07ed8380$296f5ed1@immortal.bestweb.net>
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I currently have a 400 meg swap with 128 megs ram and have had no problems. The servers which I work with have the swap ranging from 200 - 600 megs, and no problems with any of them. I cannot see any reason why there would ever be a problem with the size of the swap. That ratio is just there to give a suggested size of what you might need, I don't think it has anything to do with "I cannot handle more than 2xram" Mark Dickey mark@bestweb.net -----Original Message----- From: J. Han <hjh@best.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 2:32 AM Subject: large swap to ram ratio >Hello, > >Can VM system handle a large swap to ram ratio (say 10) situation well? > >I am planning to add a second hard drive (either 10 or 13 Gb) to my home box. >Primary reason is to use it as a dump for the current 6.4 Gb drive, >and secondary reason is to add some more swap space -- currently >I have 64 Mb RAM and 138 Mb swap on a Pentium 233. > >I am considering adding a fairly large swap space, say, around 500 Mb >or even higher. This new swap space will make the swap to RAM ratio >10 instead of 2. I expect much of swap will be taken up by lots of >PostScript and PDF files that I keep opened for occasional references. >Of course Netscape and Java will eat up the rest. Unfortunately, >adding more RAM is not an option. > >If you have experience in having large swap space, please let me know. > >Thanks, > > J Han hjh@best.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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