Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:33:20 -0600 From: Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@texoma.net> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: amd64 freebsd <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitions Message-ID: <3FD8F0B0.20505@texoma.net> In-Reply-To: <20031211154757.GC58813@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3FD7F786.7010208@texoma.net> <200312111330.08052.adridg@cs.kun.nl> <20031211154757.GC58813@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:30:08PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > >>On Thursday 11 December 2003 05:50, Jimmie Houchin wrote: >> >>>Do I really need a 4gb swap partition/slice? >>>I have 4gb ram. >> >>8 is suggested, no? Certainly if you've got a 220G drive, you can afford that? >>The story is sort of this: the VM is optimized for the situation that there's >>twice as much swap as memory. > > > I'm not aware that was ever the case, and if it was in 4.3BSD, I don't > think that is the case in 5-FreeBSD. Unless a vm hacker tells me > otherwise, I think 1.1 times RAM is a sufficient rule with one has 4-8GB > RAM and no other reason to believe on needs more swap. 1.1 times is the > space for crashdumps, and the need for that has already been told. Great! I am more than happy to pocket the extra 3.5gb. I don't think I will but, if I added more ram later... Can I have my 1.1*ram swap on multiple partitions? Thanks for this info. Jimmie
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