From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 19:44:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D9A37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E61743E52 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:44:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0460.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.205] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17RkzI-0001wY-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 22:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3D2A4DDB.75F8561B@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:43:39 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson Cc: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: swap & huge mem systems References: <20020708212522.N945-100000@april.chuckr.org> <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Erik Trulsson wrote: > Minimal amount of swap possible: No swap at all of course. > Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM > size + 64K > Minimal amount of swap you need: Depends on what you are doing, > doesn't it? > > You don't need to configure any swap at all if you think your RAM is > going to be large enough for everything you do. Crash dumps good. Zero swap bad. Systems with zero swap lock up tight when they run out of memory; even 1M of swap makes this not happen. There appears to be a bug. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message