From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 21:14:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA58A37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5419243E5E for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:14:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 476D2812FD; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:44:52 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:44:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <20020801041452.GC48188@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87u1mfk9me.fsf@pooh.int> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 31 July 2002 at 13:58:17 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-07-31T17:17:28Z, Rob Ellis writes: > >> if you have a gigabyte of ram, does the 2 x ram calculation for the swap >> partition (from the fbsd handbook) still make sense? thanks. > > IANA kernel hacker, but I've read that you should allocate at least twice > the amount of RAM for the main reason that FreeBSD's VM system is optimized > for that amount. It will still run with less swap, but it will use > less-optimal algorithms and/or settings. Not really. The same size as RAM would be enough. There are reasons not to use less than that--see my next reply. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message