From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 01:21:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66AD16A4C0 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BEF643FBD for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 18264 invoked by uid 65534); 20 Aug 2003 08:21:40 -0000 Received: from B5ce6.pppool.de (HELO there) (213.7.92.230) by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 20 Aug 2003 10:21:40 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Benjamin Walkenhorst To: , Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:20:09 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <002001c366f0$a94ce940$fe01a8c0@JMICH> In-Reply-To: <002001c366f0$a94ce940$fe01a8c0@JMICH> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20030820082141.8BEF643FBD@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RAM increase + swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:21:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 20. August 2003 09:57 chael@southgate.ph.inter.net wrote: > Hello, > > If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, > don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is only at > 512 (mem x 2). How do you resize a partition inside a freebsd slice, btw? Hello, 1) Increasing the swap-partitions size will be hard to impossible, I'm afraid 2) You probably don't need to, anyway. Did you watch how much of your swap space ever becomes utilized? You would have to push your machine really hard in order to make it run out of swap. Unless you need the swap space for crashdumps, 512MB swap should be *more* than sufficient. FreeBSD has excellent memory managment, and nowadays you don't need as much swap as you did some years ago. But you can specify different locations for crashdumps (if I am not mistaken). Kind regards, Benjamin - -- Benjamin Walkenhorst eMail: krylon@gmx.net homepage: http://www.krylon.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public Key available at http://www.krylon.de iD8DBQE/Qy8/oYumWdMvhMQRAgqEAJ967MB0HB3cBf+c8+dnPOsSTtmMKQCeNLNP fE6pMaetcWOzvi9To6e5Eac= =nfyl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----