From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 09:51:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00557 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:51:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00552 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA21402; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:50:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:50:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199807201650.JAA21402@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hjh@best.com Subject: Re: large swap to ram ratio In-Reply-To: <199807201021.DAA16091@shell9.ba.best.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "J. Han" >Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 03:21:49 -0700 (PDT) >Can VM system handle a large swap to ram ratio (say 10) situation well? >.... >If you have experience in having large swap space, please let me know. Well, I generally start with 256MB swap, and go up from there (even with machines that have 16MB of RAM (or less, I suppose, but we tend to use X here, so the desktop machine that doesn't have at least 16MB RAM is rare). Then again, I also generally configure /tmp as an MFS. I don't know of any problems that this has caused. Oh -- this has been on a FreeBSD-2.2.6-RELEASE environment, for the most part. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message