From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 20:37: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 181E737B66D for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 20:36:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from hairy (hutch-803.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.131]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA13652; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:36:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , Subject: RE: is swap a neccessity? Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:38:33 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <393E9E14.B6056F2D@wmptl.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Nathan Vidican > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 2:10 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: is swap a neccessity? > > > I understand there is some conflict as to the right amount of swapspace; > I've seen various postings on it here a few times now. Some say too much > is a bad thing, most say (2 * RAM) = swap; yet others say that doesn't > apply anymore. Going along with that thought, if more swapspace is > needed as less RAM is available; could one not do away with swapspace > all-together if they had more RAM than they ever anticipate needing? > EG: running 128Megs RAM on a machine that would normally > run fine with > 100meg swap and 20megs ram? or even to a larger extent; running with > 768megs ram on a machine that would normally have run with 200meg swap > and 128megs ram? > Your questions are relevant, but to answer them properly depends on user load, version of FreeBSD, what services are running, and so on. The old rule of thumb of 2*RAM is just that, an old rule of thumb. Is it accurate in todays world? That depends. Given the current price of hard drives and RAM I would give it a lot of both. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message