Date: 02 Sep 2001 23:20:49 -0500 From: Jeremy <thinker5555@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Amount of swap space? Message-ID: <87r8toq50e.fsf@yahoo.com>
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I'm very new to FreeBSD, so if some of my terminology is not correct, please forgive me. I'm coming from a Linux world. Anywho, I just tried installing 4.3 on my box, but I had a bit of a problem that I couldn't find answered in the Handbook. I know that the amount of swap space is supposed to be 2-3x the amount of RAM you have, but is this fixed? I have 512MB on my box, and in creating a 2GB paritition to install FreeBSD to to try out, it took half of it for swap! I tried deleting the swap space and putting in a new one, but then when I tried to put in other partitions (slices?) such as to mount a seperate /usr/home or to just enlarge /usr (by deleting and recreating larger) I keep getting the message that there's not enough room to add the new one. Does anyone know what is happening with this? I'd greatly appreciate the help, especially seeing as how I'd prefer to have a bit more storage space rather than a total of 1.5GB of swap/RAM. Thanks, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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