Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:28:49 -0600 From: Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca> To: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <B96D8881.2021F%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020731174826.GI22253@web.ca>
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On 7/31/02 11:48 AM, "Rob Ellis" <rob@web.ca> 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...? > > 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 > A webserver I look after only has 384 MB of ram. It has enough to keep its pipe busy. On busy days, it has run out of mbufs before memory, with a 64 user kernel. Increasing max users to max supported by freebsd has solved this problem 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 messagehelp
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