From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 15 13:50:43 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 93F1D37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:50:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5F043E6E for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021115215040.HYIQ21905.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 21:50:40 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAFLmZd8000499; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:48:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gAFLmULn000494; Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:48:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Jerry McAllister Cc: jonas@netwood.net (Jonas Fornander), FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG ('FreeBSD LIST') Subject: Re: Running out of swap space????? References: <200211151708.gAFH8Vq25809@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 15 Nov 2002 13:48:29 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200211151708.gAFH8Vq25809@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <3ulm3uec7m.m3u@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Jerry McAllister writes: > Hmmmm. Sorry for following up my own post. I didn't notice your memory > size before. 64MB + 128MB is not a lot of total space. I am not surprised No problem. (I didn't even know that was something to be sorry for.) But please reconsider promulgating that lousy old 2xRAM rule of thumb. Your "total space" is what should count; the issue should what total space is needed, not what multiple of RAM is needed. Eg, if they have 1 GB RAM, they don't need 2GB swap. What is a good rule of thumb for total space? I usually give newbies a number around 300MB. To keep the rule of thumb simple for swap-sizing, don't subtract the RAM from "total space". Just say "a good rule of thumb for swap is 300MB". The number is debatable (probably in the 200-400MB range), but the rule has the advantage of being more easily adjusted for non-rule-of-thumb cases. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message