Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:28:33 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: rfg@monkeys.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition Message-ID: <199906172028.AA210841314@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:50:39 EDT." <199906171950.PAA77238@lakes.dignus.com>
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> And - it may be a requirement that swap be as large as physical memory, >if not twice as large... On p. 62 of the Lehey book (2nd ed.) there is a lengthy discussion entitled "How much swap?" The last point says: "Even with lightly memory loads, the virtual memory system slowly pages out data in preparation for a possible sudden demand for memory. This means that it can be mor responsive to such requests. As a result, you should have at least as much swap as memory." [Buy the book, it's loaded with useful stuff, even if you've been a sysadmin for decades.] -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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