Date: 01 Nov 2005 10:43:38 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap space Message-ID: <44r7a0pe51.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051101094812.030e2d20@pop.msdi.ca> References: <6.2.3.4.2.20051101094812.030e2d20@pop.msdi.ca>
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Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> writes: > I just bought 4 servers with 4 gigs of ram, the documentation proposes > to use 2 to 3 times the amount of ram for swap... I don't think 12 > gigs of swap would be useful lol, but do I really need to put 4 gigs > of ram. (It might be useful for kernel dump but...) > > What do you guys do with swap space in this scenario ? It depends on the system usage. You don't *need* any swap at all. I would advise more swap space than RAM, though, to make sure you can do a kernel dump.
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