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Date:      Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:37:31 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Out of swap hangs machine
Message-ID:  <l03020927b471dc93049a@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <19991206074002.B5763@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
References:  <XFMail.991206172424.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:24:24PM %2B1030 <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912060942240.3183-100000@Eagle.ZGIA.zp.ua> <XFMail.991206172424.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Hi,

At 7:40 am +0100 6/12/99, Szilveszter Adam wrote:
>On 06-Dec-99 Alexandr Listopad wrote:
>>  11M free of mem, and 130M free of swap.... ;) And my FreeBSD never used
>>  swap... as I see on "top".
>>
>>  Question: why it should be "...2x your RAM.." ???
>It is essentially an old rule of thumb but it should be adjusted according
>to your site's requirements. It was also said that above 64M RAM swap is not
>strictly necessary[etc]

But bear in mind that swap > RAM is required if you ever want to take a
crash dump.


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