Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 11:35:50 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "Nathaniel Schein" <nschein@prisa.com> Cc: "Freebsd Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The size of root and swap Message-ID: <4253.941535350@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:01:17 PST." <a498abf1619442d3a275d578997e87fb381e1bc3@(null)>
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On Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:01:17 PST, "Nathaniel Schein" wrote: > Somewhere in a man page or Complete FreeBSD version 2.x.x I remember a > suggestion that the root partition should be small in order to reduce the > possibility of corruption. Is this really a factor? No. > What happens if somebody dumps a huge file in /tmp? You close his or her account. :-) Lots of folks use MFS for their /tmp partition, so its use does not affect the root partition. See the MFS option dcescription at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html > Should the / directory's size vary depending on > the availability of space? What is the suggested size and why? Check out sysinstall's own suggested size, with the Auto option in the fdisk UI. > Also, it used to be that the amount of swap was 2x the memory. Is this > still true or since memory commonly 128-256MB+ is there a suggested > upper bound? I think the generally touted magic number is 2.1x RAM depending on expected usage. The more swap you have, the more potential there is for paging. If you have "too much swap", it'll take a lot of paging before a moggy process runs out of memory and is killed. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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