Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:59:15 -0400 From: "Ryan Masse" <mail@max-info.net> To: "Jacob" <jacob@essociate.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2G RAM: how much swap space? Message-ID: <00b101c0fb77$588d2920$3200a8c0@Home> References: <20010622165142.D29638@berta.essoc.net>
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The rule of thumb is 2xRAM but as you had said that seems a little exessive in your case. It really is up to the administrator; if you feel your server will be under heavy load and that a good portion of your physical memory will be eaten up then you may want to go with a large swap size maybe 1gig? Each webserver under my supervision under medium load have no more then 256MB of swap space. Again its not even a must to have swap its up to you. just my $.02, Ryan > > Fellow Daemonheads, > > What is the recommended partitioning scheme with regard to swap space > for a web server (2 1-GHz PIII; *2G RAM*; 2 9G SCSI drives). Principle > apps that the server will be running are Apache/mod_perl & MySQL. > > The defaults given by the FreeBSD install are 4099M swap on each > drive, and this seems excessive considering half the disk space would > be used for swap. > > TIA for tips/insight. > > -- > Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge. > > 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
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