From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 9 13:16: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E42337B421 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:15:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a076.otenet.gr [212.205.215.76]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g29LEvft010213; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:14:58 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g29LET25054156; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:14:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g29H2ifq015595; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:02:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: hades.hell.gr: charon set sender to keramida@freebsd.org using -f Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:02:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Mauritz Sundell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap-usage Message-ID: <20020309170244.GD15318@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020308115843.O29414-100000@morgan.upsys.se> <200203081854.g28IsTw78250@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203081854.g28IsTw78250@apollo.backplane.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 2002-03-08 10:54, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > If you have a large hard drive then configuring a big chunk of swap > doesn't hurt. When I first purchased my current workstation it had > 64M of ram. I configured 512M of swap. I later upgraded the workstation > to 128M, then 256M of ram. The swap is almost completely unused now > but there are occassions when I am glad its there, and by being > generous when I initially created it I have not had to worry about it at > all in three years. To me the ability to 'configure and forget', to > not have to worry about it ever again on this machine, is worth it. Pretty much my thoughts exactly. When I bought this new 45 GB disk of mine, about a year ago, and cut a nice 1 GB partition on it for swap space. The workstation had 64 MB of physical memory at the time. Now that the memory has been upgraded to 128 MB, when the occasional kernel crash comes my way, it's nice to know that I probably won't need to change anything to this machine's setup even if the memory is upgraded some time in the future to 256 MB, 512 MB or more :) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message