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Date:      Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:44:58 +0100
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Bulk] How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system?
Message-ID:  <53CE950A.5040205@qeng-ho.org>
In-Reply-To: <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com>
References:  <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <1406046615.3925.2.camel@rocketmail.com>

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On 22/07/2014 17:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 17:05 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote:
>> I'm getting a new machine with 32 GB of memory. The old "twice physical
>> memory" sizing seems ridiculous, so how big should I make swap? Do I
>> even need swap with this much memory?
>
> Do you hibernate?

No, but I suffer seasonal affective disorder and wish I could. :-)

Being serious, no I have no need to hibernate the machine. I didn't even 
know you could with FBSD.




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