From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 9 5: 6:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75B737B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 332F043E52 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from canoe.velocet.net (canoe210.velocet.net [216.138.240.43]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE25E138123; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:06:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 698135679AE; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:37:58 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15658.51990.340513.416553@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:37:58 -0400 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Erik Trulsson , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: [hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems In-Reply-To: <20020708220517.K945-100000@april.chuckr.org> References: <20020709015454.GA6323@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20020708220517.K945-100000@april.chuckr.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Robey writes: >> Personally, in your situation I would probably configure enough >> swap to be able to catch a core dump and not much more, >> i.e. slightly more than 1G swap. Chuck> Probably a good compromise, it just feels silly to go for a G Chuck> of swap when I will probably never use more than 256M (and that Chuck> not very often). I mostly compile, edit, and web-browse. Chuck> Thanks for the confirmation (I suspected this answer, but I Chuck> feel better now about it). Personally, I have an old 6gig drive on which I have a dump partition (it doesn't need to be active swap). 6gig drives are too slow to be useful these days. I generally allocate 4 swap partitions on fast drives where each is about 1/2 of memory (2x total). Speed of swap is as important as size of swap. DAve. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message