From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 10:31:32 2002 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 461AC37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from su.ualberta.ca (mail.su.ualberta.ca [129.128.133.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FAFF43E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca) Received: from [129.128.133.207] ([129.128.133.207] verified) by su.ualberta.ca (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b6) with ESMTP id 46880107; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:30:39 -0600 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:31:30 -0600 Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? From: Colin Harford To: Rob Ellis , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> Mime-version: 1.0 X-address: Suite 2-900, SUB, University of Alberta, 8900-114 St, Edmonton: Alberta, T6G 2J7 X-disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable 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 On 7/31/02 11:17 AM, "Rob Ellis" wrote: > if you have a gigabyte of ram, does the 2 x ram calculation > for the swap partition (from the fbsd handbook) still make sense? > thanks. >=20 > - rob >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message All depends on what you use the machine for.... Desktop, big deal But if its a mission critical server, add some, bescides HD space is pretty cheap now. From one machine that doesn't quite have 1 GB of ram.... last pid: 30202; load averages: 0.06, 0.01, 0.00 up 4+09:29:04 13:20:58 56 processes: 1 running, 55 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6%idl= e Mem: 24M Active, 169M Inact, 92M Wired, 8K Cache, 99M Buf, 592M Free Swap: 1776M Total, 1776M Free My desktop is offline, else I'd show you its stats, its got 1.25 GB of ram, and 1 GB of swap.... Things just fly.... I don't think I've ever pushed it into swap, either way, its better safe than sorry to have some. Colin Harford =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Systems and Network Administrator =A0=A0=A0=A0 Apple Product Professional =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =A0=A0=A0=A0 Computer and Network Support =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 University of Alberta Students' Union =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Phone: (780) 492-4241 =A0=A0Fax: =A0(780) 492-4643 http://www.su.ualberta.ca "I sense much NT in you, NT leads to Blue Screen. Blue Screen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside." - Unknown Unix Jedi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message