Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:55:56 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Running out of memory Message-ID: <20050505195556.GB85210@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net> References: <20050505095927.26da64e9@jacob.6texans.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:59:27AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > I've got a server that keeps running out of memory and crashing. It has > 1GB of swap and 1GB of ram. I originally made the swap the same size as > the ram, as my previous experience with *nix machines was that when swap > is double the size of ram, the computer is almost totally unuseable for > at least 30 minutes whenever the computer needs to clean out swap. FreeBSD doesn't ever "clean out swap", so I have no idea what you mean by this. > Also, I made the mistake of partitioning all the space on the hard > drive, with only 1GB set aside for swap. How big of a performance hit > would it be to use a swap file instead of a swap partition? There is a performance hit, but you have to remember that if your machine is swapping heavily *at all* it means you're overloading it and performance will be in the toilet. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCenpMWry0BWjoQKURAnR6AKCRvqCiiBB6KJMmye5UeR5wOVFQ2wCfUJhP fcXtS4Rj0rxkEuRAVJXe5ko= =dM77 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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