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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.
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