From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 9: 4:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A2037B5A2 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 09:04:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA14532; Fri, 12 May 2000 09:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <391C2B9C.938FC736@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:04:44 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Weeks Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0-R server /var running out of inodes (not a usenet question) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For future reference, you shouldn't crosspost to -questions and -isp. Jim Weeks wrote: > > A little delayed reaction but something I have been thinking about for a > while. > > The idea has been kicked around that 32mb for / and 20mb for /var is a > little outdated. Not only in this thread but previously. That depends on what you're doing with the machine. I use 256M for both on my production machines. That leaves plenty of room for development kernels, lots of log history, etc. > The point is that I do feel it is silly to keep them so small in the days > of multi gig drives, which brings me to ask. In the days of 500mb to 1gig > of Ram is the idea of doubling that in swap space still a good practice? You want at least up to the size of the installed ram, plus some so that if you ever need to enable dumping there will be enough room. HTH, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message