Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:01:56 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum recommended amount (8243200 pages). Message-ID: <20131017170156.55185260@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <526001F5.1020505@fjl.co.uk> References: <201310171404.r9HE4ouQ018448@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <526001F5.1020505@fjl.co.uk>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:27:49 +0100 Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 17/10/2013 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm using a 72gb swap disk. > > I've 10gb RAM > > > > I get this warning: > > > > warning: total configured swap (8960911 pages) exceeds maximum > > recommended amount (8243200 pages). warning: increase > > kern.maxswzone or reduce amount of swap. > > > > What is max. recommended amount based on? > > What is the danger of exceeding it? > > How should I increase kern.maxswzone? > > > > # sysctl kern.maxswzone > > kern.maxswzone: 0 > > # > > > > Do I set it to the total swap size? > > Where is kern.maxswzone described? > > > > > > I went through this on an earlier version but didn't get any warning. > You might find the answer here: > > http://blog.frankleonhardt.com/2011/large-swap-files-on-freebsd-die-with-mystery-killed-howto-add-lots-of-swap-space/ The hard limit that's mentioned there is i386 only. I think that may have changed a bit since 8.2.
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