From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 6 13:50:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95B8114FA0 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:50:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from gid.co.uk (uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.9.2/8.8.7) with UUCP id VAA83347; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:50:49 GMT (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] by seagoon.gid.co.uk; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:37:33 GMT X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19991206074002.B5763@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> References: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:24:24PM +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:37:31 +0000 To: Szilveszter Adam From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Out of swap hangs machine Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message