From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 19: 1:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925D437B401 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 19:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 535D96AB15; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:32:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:32:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: default , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ideal swap partition space... Message-ID: <20011008113219.B15776@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from swear@blarg.net on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 03:27:41PM -0700 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 7 October 2001 at 15:27:41 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "default" writes: > >> I'm curious about setting up the amount of space for the swap partition... >> is there any ideal amount for FreeBSD? > > Yes. None. Well, though it would be nice to get by without using swap, note that the swap partition is also used for processor dumps after a panic. For that to work, your swap space must be at least the size of main memory, plus a little bit for header information. Apart from that, I agree with most of the statements in this thread. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message