From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 18 1:29:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D8837B7BC for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.its.uu.se ([130.238.7.19]:63773 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:29:14 +0100 Received: (qmail 1357 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Mar 2000 09:29:07 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:29:07 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Marcelo Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: max swap size? Message-ID: <20000318102907.A1206@student.csd.uu.se> References: <77360FEB4B0.AAA4ADE@mercury.its.umd.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bsdq@stgo.cl on Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:10:11PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:10:11PM +0000, Marcelo wrote: > Thanks or your quick response... but it only sparked new questions! ;-) > > How do I know if they partition is properly? > Should I have 1 750 meg partition or a few smaller ones on different > drives? > > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi wrote: > > > > > HI! > > > > usually freebsd requires a size of 2.5 times the size of your ram. > > the problem you are facing may be due to the fact that > > it may not be mounted properly > > > > jawwad > > FreeBSD doesn't impose any special restrictions on the size of swap. The "2.5 times your ram" is just a rule of thumb for how much might be useful to have. Now, how did you go about adding the swap partition(s)? What does your /etc/fstab file look like? You can use 'pstat -s' to see what devices are currently configured for swapping. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message