Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:32:22 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much swap space for a 32 GB RAM system? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407222030230.28002@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20140722203928.6993a78d@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <53CE8BB8.7030303@qeng-ho.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407221018190.80885@wonkity.com> <20140722203928.6993a78d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, RW wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:24:13 -0600 (MDT) > Warren Block wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, 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? >> >> Technically, no, but the system does like to have at least a little >> swap space and can benefit from it. (I forget where this is >> explained, tuning(7) maybe.) > > This is something that is often repeated, but I don't recall every > seeing an actual explanation. That's what I said, and then somebody pointed to the explanation. But it was years ago, so now it's hard to remember exactly where it was.
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