Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:42:51 -0300 From: Franco Bruno Borghesi <fborghesi@gmail.com> To: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap space Message-ID: <e13c14ec05050312423a8185b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com> References: <000601c5500e$85b4f3c0$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com>
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Actually having a separated disk for swap should increase your performance. But my opinion is that if you really need *all* the 40 GB of swap when your= =20 system's ram is 3 GB, you won't see the difference: most of the data your= =20 system needs is swapped out! You could add a partition to your new disk (let's say 2 or 3 times the=20 amount of ram), and leave the rest unpartitioned. You could use that extra= =20 space later for nightly backups, emergencies, etc. without loosing your=20 performance gain. Hope it helps. PS: Is there a FreeBSD 5.4 stable version? 2005/5/3, Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > Simple question really... Can you ever have to much swap space? >=20 > We're sitting with quite a nifty P4 System with 1GB Ram. We will more tha= n > likely add another 2 or 3GB in the month to come as our applications=20 > (mainly > perl) are consuming vast amounts of memory and swap. >=20 > We made the mistake however of just allocating 512MB swap as we did not= =20 > know > accurately at the time of installation what the resouce requires are goin= g > to be (especially not that it would be this high). >=20 > Obviously reinstalling the entire OS / Applications is not really a=20 > option. > We may want to install a dedicated 40GB just for swap... Would this be > advisable, or will it actually slow the system down? And to what extend? >=20 > We're running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. >=20 > Thanks in advance. >=20 > -- > Chris. >=20 > I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they > fly by..." - Douglas Adams, 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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