From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 11:38:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9151937B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:38:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AFD62F5; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:38:40 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Alexey Dokuchaev , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap strategy Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:38:40 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01031610384000.00516@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 16 March 2001 10:30, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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? > > > -= Alexey Dokuchaev aka DAN Fe =- > You should have at least as much as your physical ram. But if you plan to do heavy graphics or audio, I would also invest in more ram. Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message