Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 15:24:39 -0800 (PST) From: Aloha Guy <alohaguy123@yahoo.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap file vs swap partition Message-ID: <20070204232439.2952.qmail@web53602.mail.yahoo.com>
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What I actually meant was, I know in the old days, if you had 128MB, you wa= nt a 256MB swap but with 2GB RAM, isn't 4GB going to be overkill for a swap= or are you saying that a 2GB swap will work? I'm still lost on the ratio = since I thought the 2x was only if you had like small amounts of RAM.=0A=0A= John=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.= org>=0ATo: Aloha Guy <alohaguy123@yahoo.com>=0ACc: questions@freebsd.org; c= urrent@freebsd.org=0ASent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 2:28:47 PM=0ASubject: R= e: swap file vs swap partition=0A=0A=0AAloha Guy wrote:=0A> Thanks for the = input. You do have good points. The only issue with =0A> swap partitions = is that it seems like you need to increase it everytime =0A> you increase t= he physical memory. Is there a swap partition size limit =0A> that pretty = much will handle anything and setting a number larger than =0A> that will r= eally not offer anything?=0A> =0A> John=0A=0A=0AProcessors and memory have= vastly outpaced the speed of disks; any=0Aamount of swapping is going to b= e percieved as being very slow and=0Asomething that should be avoided. Sin= ce RAM is also very cheap now,=0Amost people just load enough RAM into thei= r system to handle their load,=0Aand then configure enough swap to hold a c= rashdump of that RAM. You=0Aalways want swap so that you can handle unexpe= cted spikes in load=0Awithout crashing, but it's less of an integral piece = of normal system=0Aoperation these days.=0A=0AScott=0A=0A=0A =0A___________= _________________________________________________________________________= =0AIt's here! Your new message! =0AGet new email alerts with the free Yaho= o! Toolbar.=0Ahttp://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/
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