Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:43:29 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com>, Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Message-ID: <200207312243.29716.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020731141653.V44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020731141653.V44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 02:19 pm, Peter Leftwich wrote:
| On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, 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...?
|
| Question for the list... how do you even tell FreeBSD to use X amount of
| RAM for swap? I realize in sysinstall's fdisk screen and label editor how
| to designate part of a HDD as SWAP, but how do you accomplish with RAM?
The question doesn't make any sense.
SWAP is the space on the harddisk that the O/S uses if it can't fit all it
needs in RAM. You don't use any RAM for swap.
And all RAM can be swapped out unless it's been locked into memory by the
kernel.
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