From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 11:36:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f6.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47EF37B71A for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:36:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from los_alamos@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:36:41 -0800 Received: from 64.230.154.61 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:36:41 GMT X-Originating-IP: [64.230.154.61] From: "Jonathan Hamel" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap strategy Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:36:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Mar 2001 19:36:41.0495 (UTC) FILETIME=[6CF47270:01C0AE50] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hello there, > >There are discussions going on linuxish kernel maillists with regard to >their new 2.4-kernel swap memory usage, which actually seems kinda, uhm, >at least strange to me... Anyway, I don't really care, since I use much >better OS, FreeBSD :-) and I have a question with regards to FreBSD swap >strategy. > >Say if I have Cel-600 with 128M RAM (rather average these days), and use >my box primarily for web programming and design, thus I very likely be >having to run XFree86-4, pretty heavy mozilla + netscape (I know netscape >sux, but I need to make sure my sites look the same in both browsers) + >gimp), and I use windowmaker (it rocks!) as my window manager. I also >might have to run apache on that box. > >So, considering all the above, how much of a swap space do I need? > I've had questions about this myself. I remember that Linux installs generally recommend your swap space be at least double your RAM (so since I have 64MB in this machine, my swap would be 128MB). Does the same apply to the BSD systems as well? jon _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message