Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:43:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <3D2A4DDB.75F8561B@mindspring.com> References: <20020708212522.N945-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > Minimal amount of swap possible: No swap at all of course. > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > size + 64K > Minimal amount of swap you need: Depends on what you are doing, > doesn't it? > > You don't need to configure any swap at all if you think your RAM is > going to be large enough for everything you do. Crash dumps good. Zero swap bad. Systems with zero swap lock up tight when they run out of memory; even 1M of swap makes this not happen. There appears to be a bug. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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