From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 17 4:11:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.219.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE8537B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 04:11:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 1709 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2001 12:11:41 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 17 Mar 2001 12:11:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18273; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:11:19 +0600 Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:11:18 +0600 (NOVT) From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Mike Meyer Cc: Jonathan Hamel , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap strategy In-Reply-To: <15026.60693.971478.600561@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jonathan Hamel types: > > : > > >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) + > > I'm curious - do you actually try browsers that aren't designed to > look as much alike as possible? W3m? Lynx? Links? Amaya? Opera? Well, I do commercial web programming, and people who pay money for my sites are not even aware about w3m/lynx/links existance (but I have lynx on my system and occasionaly test my sites with it). Frankly, now with Netscape holding <20% share, it's probably not a big problem having the site working only in IE, and mozilla comes very closely to what regular Windoze user would see. > > > 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? > > The 2x rule comes from wanting to do be able to get uncorrupted core > dumps. I consider it a bare minimum for any system for which you might > want to debug system crashes. For most normal desktop use, it's > probably more than sufficient, if you have enough memory for decent > performance. I tend to go with this rule when calculating swap size: if I have less than 128M, it's okay to have swap = ram * 2. Everything more than that should probably be happy with swap = ram. Of course, if you do serious kernel hacking or working with LISP compilers, you might need to tweak that rule accordingly. -- Regards, -= Alexey Dokuchaev aka DAN Fe =- [Team Assembler] [Team BSD] [Team DooM] [Team Quake] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message