From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 11:30:35 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 DC42E37B405 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from su.ualberta.ca (mail.su.ualberta.ca [129.128.133.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332B643EF9 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:28:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca) Received: from [129.128.133.207] ([129.128.133.207] verified) by su.ualberta.ca (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b6) with ESMTP id 46880243; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:27:58 -0600 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:28:49 -0600 Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? From: Colin Harford To: Rob Ellis , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020731174826.GI22253@web.ca> Mime-version: 1.0 X-address: Suite 2-900, SUB, University of Alberta, 8900-114 St, Edmonton: Alberta, T6G 2J7 X-disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility 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 7/31/02 11:48 AM, "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...? >=20 > 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. >=20 > - rob >=20 A webserver I look after only has 384 MB of ram. It has enough to keep it= s 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 solve= d this problem 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 Professional =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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message