From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 07:10:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09953 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from okeefe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09948 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 07:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@bestweb.net) Received: from immortal.bestweb.net (immortal.bestweb.net [209.94.111.41]) by okeefe.bestweb.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA15523; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Mark Dickey" From: "Mark Dickey" To: "J. Han" , Subject: Re: large swap to ram ratio Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:16:47 -0400 Message-ID: <01bdb3e9$07ed8380$296f5ed1@immortal.bestweb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I currently have a 400 meg swap with 128 megs ram and have had no problems. The servers which I work with have the swap ranging from 200 - 600 megs, and no problems with any of them. I cannot see any reason why there would ever be a problem with the size of the swap. That ratio is just there to give a suggested size of what you might need, I don't think it has anything to do with "I cannot handle more than 2xram" Mark Dickey mark@bestweb.net -----Original Message----- From: J. Han To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 2:32 AM Subject: large swap to ram ratio >Hello, > >Can VM system handle a large swap to ram ratio (say 10) situation well? > >I am planning to add a second hard drive (either 10 or 13 Gb) to my home box. >Primary reason is to use it as a dump for the current 6.4 Gb drive, >and secondary reason is to add some more swap space -- currently >I have 64 Mb RAM and 138 Mb swap on a Pentium 233. > >I am considering adding a fairly large swap space, say, around 500 Mb >or even higher. This new swap space will make the swap to RAM ratio >10 instead of 2. I expect much of swap will be taken up by lots of >PostScript and PDF files that I keep opened for occasional references. >Of course Netscape and Java will eat up the rest. Unfortunately, >adding more RAM is not an option. > >If you have experience in having large swap space, please let me know. > >Thanks, > > J Han hjh@best.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message