Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:50:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jacob <jacob@essociate.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2G RAM: how much swap space? Message-ID: <20010622204809.W92463-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20010622165142.D29638@berta.essoc.net>
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Today, the old 2xRAM rule isn't really as important. Especially when you consider the applications you're going to be running. If a database ever has to swap, forget about it. Your performance will take a steep dive. You'll probably be safest with 2 GB of swap, but that may be excessive. If you're going to be doing kernel crash debugging on this machine, up the swap space. If it's just going to be a database-driven web server, opt for 1xRAM of swap maximum, and through in as much memory as you can. Joe Clarke On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Jacob wrote: > > Fellow Daemonheads, > > What is the recommended partitioning scheme with regard to swap space > for a web server (2 1-GHz PIII; *2G RAM*; 2 9G SCSI drives). Principle > apps that the server will be running are Apache/mod_perl & MySQL. > > The defaults given by the FreeBSD install are 4099M swap on each > drive, and this seems excessive considering half the disk space would > be used for swap. > > TIA for tips/insight. > > -- > Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge. > > 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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