From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 11 01:18:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A5516A401 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:18:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49D243D53 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:18:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp222-116.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.222.116]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3B1IAmG030355 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:48:11 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:48:08 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1dbad3150604100913hff9fc4dsb125ea541675f992@mail.gmail.com> <20060410161713.GA48094@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060410161713.GA48094@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604111048.09905.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Michael Schuh , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Maximum Swapsize X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:18:27 -0000 --nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 11 April 2006 01:47, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:13:07PM +0200, Michael Schuh wrote: > > Hello @all, > > > > last weekend i have setted up an new Machine with > > 6.1-Beta4. By Installation i have made an Swappartition > > with the size of 4GB after install in runtime in top > > it sseems to me that the maximum swap-size is > > limitied to 2GB or better to INT_MAX ? > > It's limited to 16GB on i386 (or maybe 16GB per swap device, I > forget). You need a patch if you want to use this much, to avoid > deadlocks - but nothing limits it out of the box. Of course if you actually use this much swap your machine will be incompara= bly=20 slow.. The old "swap size =3D 2x RAM" rule is no longer applicable unless you have= a=20 very special application. IMO if you end up using more than 512MB of swap you need more RAM, or less= =20 applications :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEOwPR5ZPcIHs/zowRAg8VAJ92mRR6zfN3XxUfNZXLHND8WevoLQCeOGpG ChBPqM9osXSWSa/go1AjimU= =g6Xi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5667936.3hy3GKSOHh--