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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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