From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 16:27:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 626A637B404 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 16:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g4TNRfU21980; Wed, 29 May 2002 19:27:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3CF56548.70003@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 19:33:28 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Heron Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swapfile or swap partition - what better? References: <3.0.2.32.20020529233908.00fc76c0@sys.heron.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Heron wrote: > Hi All, > > what is better to use: swapfile or swap partition on FreeBSD 4.5 and heavy > loaded server? If used swap partition we are limited by its size. FreeBSD is designed to use swap partitions. I would assume that will be the most effecient. > How to calculate optimal/save swap partition size for system having 1 GB of > RAM? man tuning -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message