From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 11:29: 5 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 A522837B41F for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35B443EF4 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:20:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1BF28D3B; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:19:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:19:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Rob Ellis Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? In-Reply-To: <20020731174826.GI22253@web.ca> Message-ID: <20020731141653.V44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 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 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" 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 pr= etty > > 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 =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 Profess= ional > > =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 -- 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 message