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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:02:16 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: swap & huge mem systems
Message-ID:  <20020709125835.Y75130-100000@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik Trulsson wrote:

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ET> Minimal swap if you want to be able to catch core dumps: Physical RAM
ET> size + 64K
ET>
ET> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough swap to
ET> be able to catch a core dump and not much more, i.e. slightly more than
ET> 1G swap.

BTW, is it safe to create _interleaved_ swap totally sized slightly above
the amount of physical RAM? I mean, is core writer interleve-aware, or
does it need the first swap partiton large enough?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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