From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 5 18:20:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0917106566B for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 18:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from universite@ukr.net) Received: from otrada.od.ua (universite-1-pt.tunnel.tserv24.sto1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:27:140::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CE08FC21 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 18:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (phenom.otrada.od.ua [10.0.0.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by otrada.od.ua (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oB5IKoEo098399 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:20:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from universite@ukr.net) X-Authentication-Warning: otrada.od.ua: Host phenom.otrada.od.ua [10.0.0.10] claimed to be [10.0.0.10] Message-ID: <4CFBD7F9.3000307@ukr.net> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:20:41 +0200 From: "Vladislav V. Prodan" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=failed version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mary-teresa.otrada.od.ua X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at mary-teresa.otrada.od.ua X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: How to choose the size of swap? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:20:55 -0000 We have several servers with 8|16 GB of memory, 2|4 harddrive (RAID1|RAID10 using ZFS) These servers will work with Mysql, the size of databases that are several times larger than the size of memory. What would recommend to expose the size of swap? On a separate partition or a file? At hand is not loaded with servers that have the swap was over 20 MB ... In an extreme case, let the output "top v" to this maillist -- Vladislav V. Prodan VVP24-UANIC +38[067]4584408 +38[099]4060508 vlad11@jabber.ru