From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 08:03:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0182016A404 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:03:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linder@jeuxvideo.com) Received: from www.odyssee-interactive.com (pop.pissavy.com [217.174.215.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854FD13C461 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:03:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linder@jeuxvideo.com) Received: from [192.168.0.29] (odyssee-interactive.rain.fr [83.206.74.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by www.odyssee-interactive.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l6J838pk028281 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:03:09 +0200 Message-ID: <469F1ABC.6070503@jeuxvideo.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:03:08 +0200 From: Gabriel Linder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Swap size X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:03:11 -0000 Hi, I plan to setup FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM. The handbook says "ideal swap size is 2xRAM", so should I use 2GB of swap ? This seems a bit huge to me, I never used more than 400MB on Linux. If so, is there a limit of swap partition size (or number) on i386 (for Linux it's 2GB per partition and 32 partitions max, but I don't know for FreeBSD) ? I plan to use two slices so I can have 2x1GB of swap anyway, I'm just curious :-)