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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