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Date:      31 Jul 2002 16:21:56 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP?
Message-ID:  <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca>
References:  <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca>

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Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> writes:

> the consensus seems to be that if you want to be able to get
> crash dumps, you need a single partition == to your memory

64k more than your memory, actually...

> i think if there are problems with a machine crashing, it wouldn't
> be hard to put an old ide drive in it, and configure for crash
> dumps.

Yes, or compile a custom kernel to recognize less RAM than you have
swap space...

>        in the meantime, 1GB ram + .5GB swap still seems like lots?

Depends on how much virtual address space you're using at once.  

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