From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 14:10:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A408516A4BF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B5F43FE0 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HJX00NLJS444Y@smtp08.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:09:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7KKxxQT090672;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h7KKxsoP090606; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:59:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:59:54 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200308201459.PAA29848@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Richard Tobin Message-id: <20030820205954.GR13873@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <200308201459.PAA29848@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> cc: chael@southgate.ph.inter.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM increase + swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:10:50 -0000 On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:59:41PM +0100, Richard Tobin wrote: > > If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB > > system, don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? > > No. In fact you will need less swap space now. > > The 2xRAM rule-of-thumb makes very little sense. Its a good basic rule. It just depends on what you run. Having a 1:1 or a 2:1 (mem swap) is a good idee even when you don't use it. A computer that normaly don't need swap can crash if it sudenly does need a little space. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/