From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 11:03:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA11412 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:03:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11403 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA20747; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:02:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:02:05 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9610081802.AA20747@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich), freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 961006-SNAP comments In-Reply-To: <199610081715.SAA01094@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> References: <199610081710.NAA00777@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199610081715.SAA01094@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > Finally, a note on the computation of "default" partitions. It looks like > computations are based on memory size rather than on disk space. I have > tried to install on a 2GB disk and with 8MB ram, resulting in 28MB of > swap. I'd probably make it compute a larger swap area if the FreeBSD > slice is big enough. Say, 5..10% of the slice ? When I first wrote the code to do that, it just automatically took twice the size of physical memory. Different people have different needs for swap, so it's difficult to make a choice that will please both people with 8M machines and those with 64M machines. (I have 40M in my machine, and the only reason it has as much swap as it does is so that I can get crash dumps; in normal operation it never pages anything out to swap.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick