Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:14:20 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: Jeff Whitman <JWhitman@JWNetSource.com>, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap size Message-ID: <20110105231420.00004247@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20110105231136.GA78936@freebsd.org> References: <009101cbad28$2dbcdc00$89369400$@com> <20110105231136.GA78936@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:11:36 +0000 Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote: > don't quote me, but i don't think *too much* swap space can cause an > issue. if you have a lot of disk space available (> 1TB or so) make > it 12 GB. if you only have a few gigabyte of hdd space then choose 6 > GB swap space. If really excessive I think it can be, since I think each page of swap has to have an associated structure held in RAM. -- Bruce Cran
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