From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 20:29:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8E9D37B408 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO pmh00a) (150.252.107.62) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2001 03:29:32 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <000701c13e5f$f06d6180$3e6bfc96@acu.edu> From: "FreeBSD Mail List" To: References: <000701c13e49$4e746470$0200a8c0@networld> Subject: Re: Swap Partitions Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:30:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The swap partition is similar to Window's virtual memory. Basically, when your ram fills up or starts to get full, the os moves some of that information from the ram to the swap partition. This allows you to have more processes running at once. They also run more quickly. I would agree with the standard double ram size for the swap partition. This is how I understand the swap partition. If I am wrong, please someone correct me. Sincerely, Preston ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell A. Khurshudian" To: Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 7:48 pm Subject: Swap Partitions > May someone please explain to me the functions of the swap partition and why > the systems requires it. Another thing, i've heard that it is a good idea to > make your swap partition twice the amount of memory your system has; What is > the relationship between the swap partition and your system's memory > resources? Thank you. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message