From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 17:26:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C86F16A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A889443FB1 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:26:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HP5004L05GUFC@smtp04.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:29:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAU1QbcP014553; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:26:37 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hAU1QavQ014552; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:26:36 +0100 (CET envelope-from akruijff) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 02:26:36 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <200311291415.38068.chowse@charter.net> To: Charles Howse Message-id: <20031130012636.GC8823@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <200311291415.38068.chowse@charter.net> cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: swap space on multiple drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 01:26:31 -0000 On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:15:38PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > After reading the following section of the Handbook, I'm still a little > confused. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > configtuning-initial.html#SWAP-DESIGN > > If I have 128MB ram, and 2 drives on seperate controllers, would I create swap > partitions of 256MB on each drive? No 256+256=512 so you would put half on each. > What if I have 1GB ram? It won't be swapping much anyway. Surely 2 swap > partitions of 2GB each won't hurt, but is that overkill? It not a rule more of a guide line. You can safly put less on it if you don't swap much. Dont go to low. You don't want to a situation where 100% is a posiblity. This could panic your system. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/