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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:15:07 -0400
From:      Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP?
Message-ID:  <20020731211506.GN22253@web.ca>
In-Reply-To: <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> <20020731194842.GL22253@web.ca> <44ado7ejh7.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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> > 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...

there was some disagreement about that in that freebsd-hackers thread:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=268723+271430+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020714.freebsd-hackers

> >        in the meantime, 1GB ram + .5GB swap still seems like lots?
> 
> Depends on how much virtual address space you're using at once.  

yes. it would be nice to know ballpark requirements for different
types of servers / what kind of capacities you get with freebsd
and various hardware configurations.

- rob

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