From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Feb 17 18:39:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFB037B404 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:39:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b172.otenet.gr [212.205.244.180]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1I2de9Z008801; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:39:41 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1I2dbq12248; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:39:37 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 04:39:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jonathan Stewart Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mistype in the documentation not sure where to send it Message-ID: <20020218023937.GA12203@hades.hell.gr> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020217205849.00b52c10@email.uc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020217205849.00b52c10@email.uc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-02-17 21:01, Jonathan Stewart wrote: > i found this mistake in the freebsd manual and dont know where else to > send it page 40 in the zipped pdf download > > Choosing the right amount > of swap space can be a bit > of an art. A good rule of > thumb is that you should > have two or three times the > amount of RAM as swap > space. So if you have 64MB > of RAM then you should > have between 128MB and > 196MB of swap. You > should also have at least > 64MB of swap, so if you > have less than 32MB of > RAM in your computer > then set the swap amount to > 64MB. > > i think what was meant was 2 to 3 times as much swap space as ram Nope. The text is correct (although a bit cryptic, I have to admit). You should have swap space = 2 * RAM, especially if you're using a debugging kernel. This way, if the kernel panics, you will have enough swap space to save a copy of the entire RAM in the swap, and get a working crash dump at the next boot (provided you have configured a dump device). Thanks for trying to help though :) Keep up the good work! Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message