Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:54:55 +1030 (CST) From: Greg Robinson <greg@rosevale.com.au> To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap space... Message-ID: <199911041124.VAA11044@sad.rosevale.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199911031806.LAA98299@fedde.littleton.co.us> from Chris Fedde at "Nov 3, 1999 11:06:33 am"
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> > Jonathon McKitrick writes: > +--------------- > | So TOO much swap space can be a bad thing? I just saw a comment saying > | too much space will allow the OS to swap everything to disk and reduce > | performance. > | > | -jonathon > +--------------- > > Too much swap allocated wastes disk space that could be used for > something else. But there are valid reasons why you might want to [ ... ] Big is beautiful: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0s1a 1016303 23591 911408 3% / /dev/wd0s1e 3048942 675066 2129961 24% /usr /dev/wd0s1g 3045563 1067524 1734394 38% /home /dev/wd0s1f 2032623 68481 1801533 4% /usr/local procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc # disklabel -r /dev/rwd0s1a | grep swap b: 2097152 2097152 swap # (Cyl. 130*- 261*) (1 gig swap for 32 meg ram machine). Guess I wasted space for just about everything. But I was just sick of running out of it! My rule is 2 * physical ram, or more if you have it, as you never realy know what a machine will do, and users tend to push them to their limits. Greg. PS. Should I start a thread on partitioning now? :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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