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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:58:09 -0500
From:      Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
To:        'Maciej Suszko' <maciej@suszko.eu>
Cc:        'Daniel Bye' <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Using mdconfig for swap space
Message-ID:  <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3037EC62@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090909165005.089ae704@suszko.eu>
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>Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't =
swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... exte=
nding it to 16G >would be waste of space :)

I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* requir=
e this much swap space, but not for the typical reasons. It's a side effect=
 of how our application works and we thought we could make use of an image =
file for the extra swap rather than repartitioning, but I've read too many =
warnings against going this route so I've decided to stick with increasing =
the size of the swap partition.




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