From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 3 21:07:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA6016A4CE for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 21:07:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E14C43D46 for ; Tue, 3 May 2005 21:07:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A52255132A; Tue, 3 May 2005 14:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:07:43 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Message-ID: <20050503210743.GA11371@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> <20050503204542.GB10776@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:07:50 -0000 --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--