Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:14:21 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SWAP size Message-ID: <200304282314.22236.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200304281054.48976.ryba@kompakt.pl> References: <200304281054.48976.ryba@kompakt.pl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday 28 April 2003 10:54, Piotr Rybicki wrote: > Hi everyone. > > In man tuning(7) we read, that swap size should be about 2x main memmory > size. Why swap size should be so big? Isn't swap size equal to main memmory > size enough? IMHO the swapsize=2x phys. mem size has always been just a rule of thumb. You need as much swap as you need (doh). But so far, the memory requirements of software have pretty much grown proportionally with the availibility / affordability of bigger sticks of memory and thus the rule of thumb still makes sense. YMMV. -- Regards, Michael Nottebrock [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+rZmuXhc68WspdLARAhjFAKCmnenqs1EQgJRujtsw0buvBcuy+gCeIX3c AderGVxnKPgED8qCyVRkKRU= =xscJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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