Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:19:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <20020731141653.V44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020731174826.GI22253@web.ca>
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Rob Ellis wrote: > 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...? Question for the list... how do you even tell FreeBSD to use X amount of RAM for swap? I realize in sysinstall's fdisk screen and label editor how to designate part of a HDD as SWAP, but how do you accomplish with RAM? Thanks, > 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 > > 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 -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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