Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 07:37:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net>, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: swap sizing Message-ID: <20050531143736.GD9158@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050530231155.GA43641@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050530090525.246b0c35.kgunders@teamcool.net> <20050530231155.GA43641@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 04:11:55PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:05:25AM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > On larger systems sporting several gigs of ram, what it the recommended > > swap scheme? I'm aware of the 2x ram rule of thumb and also that this > > rule is considered "old school" by many. And of course that you need > > at least as much swap as ram if you want to get a full dump... .. > > I'd recommend as much swap as RAM (allowing for future expansion if > you think you might one day add more RAM). Plus some space for dump headers, etc.. On an 4-32GB machines I use RAM+2MB. I'm sure the dump headers is smaller, but if it grew one day... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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