From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 13:28:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (BROCCOLI.GRAPHICS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4CB15510 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA210841314; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:28:34 -0400 Message-Id: <199906172028.AA210841314@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: rfg@monkeys.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:50:39 EDT." <199906171950.PAA77238@lakes.dignus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:28:33 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > And - it may be a requirement that swap be as large as physical memory, >if not twice as large... On p. 62 of the Lehey book (2nd ed.) there is a lengthy discussion entitled "How much swap?" The last point says: "Even with lightly memory loads, the virtual memory system slowly pages out data in preparation for a possible sudden demand for memory. This means that it can be mor responsive to such requests. As a result, you should have at least as much swap as memory." [Buy the book, it's loaded with useful stuff, even if you've been a sysadmin for decades.] -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message