Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:48:26 -0400 From: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <20020731174826.GI22253@web.ca> In-Reply-To: <B96D7B12.20206%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca> References: <20020731171728.GH22253@web.ca> <B96D7B12.20206%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
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i'm setting up a new machine, currently with 256M swap partitions on 2 disks, so 512M of swap, which seems like enough... it is going to be a server, but i can't imagine it's going to need 1.5GB of memory...? if crash dumps are enabled, maybe you need the extra swap? but they're off by default and i don't see turning them on. - rob On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:31:30AM -0600, Colin Harford wrote: > On 7/31/02 11:17 AM, "Rob Ellis" <rob@web.ca> 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. > > > > - rob > > > > 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%idle > 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 > > > Systems and Network Administrator Apple Product Professional > ================================= > Computer and Network Support > University of Alberta Students' Union > Phone: (780) 492-4241 Fax: (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
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