From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 10:26:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17049 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:26:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16982; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01320; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:25:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Byoung-Kee Yi , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trivial Question on Virtual Memory In-Reply-To: <199802110416.XAA07995@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > Byoung-Kee Yi said: > > Hi there - > > > > I'm a little bit confused about the size of virual memory. > > Is it (RAM size + swap size) or max(RAM, swap)? > > That is, does just adding more RAMs increase the total > > virtual memory size, or should I also increase the swap > > partition? > > > Your total available virtual mem is essentially the size > of your swap space only. However, you can often get by > with less. It is best to plan ahead, and allocate enough > swap. And buy lots of RAM to avoid using that swap :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message