From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 19:43:45 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 DBAC337B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA1343E42 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail8.nc.rr.com (fe8 [24.93.67.55]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g712hWga019803; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:43:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([66.26.254.93]) by mail8.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:43:40 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id ED3F2BA12; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:43:29 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Peter Leftwich , Rob Ellis Subject: Re: 1GB ram, how much SWAP? Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:43:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: FreeBSD LIST References: <20020731141653.V44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020731141653.V44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200207312243.29716.bts@babbleon.org> 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 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. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message