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Date:      Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:12:32 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
To:        AlleyOop <ml@alleyoop.m8.ntu.edu.tw>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about the size of swap
Message-ID:  <3AA3ACE0.42CF0808@iowna.com>
References:  <20010305212008.A52026@alleyoop.m8.ntu.edu.tw>

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AlleyOop wrote:
> 
>  all:
> 
>    It seems that handbook suggest we've at least had 2x main memory size of
> 
>        swap . Is it ok for a machine with 2.5 GB RAM and 500 MB swap space ?
> 
>        regards,
>                alleyoop

It will work, you can run a system with no swap if you have enough RAM
to hold all your applications. There are some debugging features that
will be unavailable to you if you have less swap than RAM, but if you're
not doing debugging the system will run just fine.

-Bill

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