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Cc: alc@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
	Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Time to bump default VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX?
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > The limit we had was insufficient for 8 GB of swap.
> In absolute or practical terms?

This whole thing started because I have a machine with 8 GB swap that
ran out of swzone.

> At this point i386 is going to be used on smaller systems
> (e.g. netbooks, etc.), not servers that have lots of swap.

I don't think it's unreasonable for an i386 box to be maxed out on RAM
(4 GB) and have twice that amount of swap.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no