Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 23:34:20 -0400 From: Vlad <tmd@tmd.df.ru> To: Jeremy <thinker5555@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Amount of swap space? Message-ID: <20010901233420.A56247@tmd.df.ru> In-Reply-To: <87r8toq50e.fsf@yahoo.com>; from thinker5555@yahoo.com on Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 11:20:49PM -0500 References: <87r8toq50e.fsf@yahoo.com>
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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
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