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Subject: Re: Time to bump default VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX?
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On Friday, August 24, 2012 8:45:43 am Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> > Note that on i386 you can't get more than 4GB of RAM without PAE, and i=
f you
> > have any modern x86 box with > 4GB of RAM, you are most likely running =
amd64
> > on it, not i386.  I think i386 would be fine to just keep the limit it =
had.
>=20
> The limit we had was insufficient for 8 GB of swap.

In absolute or practical terms?  Not all swap blocks are fully utilized.  At
Y! the install script we used would compute the maximum theoretical swap zo=
ne
needed and then cut it in half, and this worked quite well.  Also, keep in =
mind,
this is for i386, not amd64.  At this point i386 is going to be used on sma=
ller
systems (e.g. netbooks, etc.), not servers that have lots of swap.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin