From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 11:42:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1627914A14 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:42:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19240; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:41:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma019197; Wed, 24 Mar 99 13:41:24 -0600 Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id NAA22749; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:41:23 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990324134123.B22003@winternet.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:41:23 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Peter Brezny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap file size References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Peter Brezny on Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 02:34:38PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Brezny wrote: > it appears that the default swap file size on install is about twice the > installed ram... > > is a smaller swap size better for a 2.2.8 machine that is going to be > strictly used as a web server? one closer to the actual size of the ram > in the box? No. Swap space should be at least 2 times as large as the amount of RAM you have. I usually use more. -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message