From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 1 20:34:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tmd.df.ru (cr775576-e.rchrd1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.202.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A77337B408 for ; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 20:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tmd.df.ru (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F3A427A4F; Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:34:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:34:20 -0400 From: Vlad To: Jeremy Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Amount of swap space? Message-ID: <20010901233420.A56247@tmd.df.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Vlad , Jeremy , FreeBSD Questions References: <87r8toq50e.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87r8toq50e.fsf@yahoo.com>; from thinker5555@yahoo.com on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:20:49PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE 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 Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:20:49PM -0500, Jeremy (thinker5555@yahoo.com) wrote: > 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. If you have 512 RAM then 500 SWAP should more than enough for you. "2x" rule usually exists for people who have small amount of memory. As per partitioning.. use /stand/sysinstall to erase "swap" and add a small one. Worked for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message