From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 12:10:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B471337BA09 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA69667 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:20:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <393E9E14.B6056F2D@wmptl.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:10:12 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican Reply-To: webmaster@wmptl.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: is swap a neccessity? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I understand there is some conflict as to the right amount of swapspace; I've seen various postings on it here a few times now. Some say too much is a bad thing, most say (2 * RAM) = swap; yet others say that doesn't apply anymore. Going along with that thought, if more swapspace is needed as less RAM is available; could one not do away with swapspace all-together if they had more RAM than they ever anticipate needing? EG: running 128Megs RAM on a machine that would normally run fine with 100meg swap and 20megs ram? or even to a larger extent; running with 768megs ram on a machine that would normally have run with 200meg swap and 128megs ram? -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message