From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 10:22:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07035 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:22:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06921 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:22:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10463; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:21:52 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Uncle Flatline cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: With 80MB RAM, is (2*RAM) swap still reasonable? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Uncle Flatline wrote: > I have 80 MB RAM, and a 1.2 GB hard disk. During the install, the auto- > matic partitioning/slicing suggests a 169 MB swap. Is this reasonable? That might be a little big. I think there is some magic in 2*RAM in the VM system but John Dyson would have to confirm that. For a ref point I have an 100MB swap partition on 40MB of RAM, using 13% with X running. I made it big last time since I was anticipating memory upgrades and lots of X activity which tends to gobble swap quickly. This is on a 1080MB disk. When in doubt, you can't have too much swap. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message