Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:36:41 -0500 From: "Jonathan Hamel" <los_alamos@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap strategy Message-ID: <F6BDyseVwrblZz02H670000472d@hotmail.com>
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>Hello there, > >There are discussions going on linuxish kernel maillists with regard to >their new 2.4-kernel swap memory usage, which actually seems kinda, uhm, >at least strange to me... Anyway, I don't really care, since I use much >better OS, FreeBSD :-) and I have a question with regards to FreBSD swap >strategy. > >Say if I have Cel-600 with 128M RAM (rather average these days), and use >my box primarily for web programming and design, thus I very likely be >having to run XFree86-4, pretty heavy mozilla + netscape (I know netscape >sux, but I need to make sure my sites look the same in both browsers) + >gimp), and I use windowmaker (it rocks!) as my window manager. I also >might have to run apache on that box. > >So, considering all the above, how much of a swap space do I need? > I've had questions about this myself. I remember that Linux installs generally recommend your swap space be at least double your RAM (so since I have 64MB in this machine, my swap would be 128MB). Does the same apply to the BSD systems as well? jon _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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