From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 20:06:58 2004 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 8091D16A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.mcmanis.com (www.mcmanis.com [66.125.189.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EF7643D2F for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 20:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmcmanis@mcmanis.com) Received: (qmail 32492 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2004 04:17:13 -0000 Received: from home.mcmanis.com (HELO manowar.mcmanis.com) (66.125.189.30) by www.mcmanis.com with SMTP; 3 Mar 2004 04:17:13 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20040302200517.02d38ed8@66.125.189.29> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 20:10:14 -0800 To: Jamie , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Chuck McManis In-Reply-To: <20040302220558.R72279@floyd.gnulife.org> References: <20040302220558.R72279@floyd.gnulife.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Swap space - max size 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, 03 Mar 2004 04:06:58 -0000 At 08:09 PM 3/2/2004, Jamie wrote: > Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if > you have 2 Gb of ram? 4GB is the virtual address limit, not the physical address limit (which is higher) However if you're swapping a lot on a 2GB system then you're biggest problem is that the entire system is being dragged down to the bandwidth of disk spindle. Not good. --Chuck