From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 03:22:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18125 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 03:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (root@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18118 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 03:22:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hjh@shell9.ba.best.com) Received: (from hjh@localhost) by shell9.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) id DAA16091; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 03:21:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Han" Message-Id: <199807201021.DAA16091@shell9.ba.best.com> Subject: large swap to ram ratio To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 03:21:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Can VM system handle a large swap to ram ratio (say 10) situation well? I am planning to add a second hard drive (either 10 or 13 Gb) to my home box. Primary reason is to use it as a dump for the current 6.4 Gb drive, and secondary reason is to add some more swap space -- currently I have 64 Mb RAM and 138 Mb swap on a Pentium 233. I am considering adding a fairly large swap space, say, around 500 Mb or even higher. This new swap space will make the swap to RAM ratio 10 instead of 2. I expect much of swap will be taken up by lots of PostScript and PDF files that I keep opened for occasional references. Of course Netscape and Java will eat up the rest. Unfortunately, adding more RAM is not an option. If you have experience in having large swap space, please let me know. Thanks, J Han hjh@best.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message