Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:07:43 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap space Message-ID: <20050503210743.GA11371@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <D1E87824-3EDF-4E57-AF92-C1BB6ED668F2@shire.net> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> <20050503204542.GB10776@xor.obsecurity.org> <D1E87824-3EDF-4E57-AF92-C1BB6ED668F2@shire.net>
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--Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:02:11PM -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >=20 > On May 3, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >Since it's a pain to add swap later you want to make > >allowances for future expansion (e.g. you'd need 32GB of swap if you > >ever plan to add 32GB of RAM). >=20 > I understand that people recommend as much swap as you have ram or =20 > more. However, is this required and why? I have a dual opteron =20 > system running i386 5.3-release (with released patches) and it has =20 > 4GB RAM and only 2GB of swap, which is hardly ever touched, and when =20 > it is, just in small amounts. >=20 > Why is this a problem? (If it ever needs the 2gb of swap I am in =20 > trouble as the load at that time would be sky high and the machine =20 > not really responsive anyway) I explained in my email..you need it to dump the kernel. Kris --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCd+gfWry0BWjoQKURArWbAJ0W3xnrRctB4npMzuEYyLwqe8hKRgCfd5GA +0lKhdiypqQwcEdJlPWwQlY= =6/Uo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z--
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