From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 18:42:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2939E16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from spmler1.mail.eds.com (spmler1.mail.eds.com [194.128.225.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF58443D1D for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:42:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thomas.sparrevohn@eds.com) Received: from spmlir2.mail.eds.com (spmlir2.mail.eds.com [205.191.69.42] (may be forged))hBB2gHA8002565; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:42:19 GMT Received: from spmlir2.mail.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spmlir2.mail.eds.com (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBB2gGs09091; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:42:16 GMT Received: from ukspm103.exemhub.exch.eds.com ([204.230.90.153]) by spmlir2.mail.eds.com (8.11.6p3/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBB2gGS09085; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:42:16 GMT Received: by ukspm103 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:42:12 -0000 Message-ID: <2946E9F05C8DD511A7DC0002A5608CE4DB2018@gbchm201.exgb01.exch.eds.com> From: "Sparrevohn, Thomas" To: "'Leo Bicknell'" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:42:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain Subject: RE: adding more ram X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:42:39 -0000 The /var size should properly stay as recommended. But a sanity check on the available space when enabling crash dumps might be a good idea -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Leo Bicknell Sent: 11 December 2003 02:27 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding more ram Speaking of tuning, it should probably mention a swap partition must be larger than RAM to support crash dumps, and /var needs to have space for nxRAM dumps, where n is how many you want to keep. I've seen too many people with 2G RAM and 1G swap, or a 1G machine with crash dumps enabled and a 128M /var, as recomended. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org