From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jun 16 23:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16329 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16317 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:17:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA27349; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:11:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Message-ID: <19980617001140.22352@nothing-going-on.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:11:40 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Tim Gerchmez , mlduke@concentric.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Configuration References: <3585EEB2.15EA@concentric.net> <3.0.5.32.19980615211804.007f5b70@mx.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980615211804.007f5b70@mx.serv.net>; from Tim Gerchmez on Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 09:18:04PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > At 10:04 PM 6/15/98 -0600, you wrote: > >I'm fairly sure, but do not know with _utter certainty_ that a couple > >of serious errors are there. Rule of thumb on swap is 2-4 times RAM, > >but as with all other things in Unix everything "depends" > > This so called "rule of thumb" is actually a rule of bologna. It would > indicate that if you had 512 megs of RAM in your machine, you need a 1 to 2 > gig cache. See the foolishness of this "rule of thumb?" Uh, that's *why* it's a rule of thumb. A quick way of calculating swap that works in most cases. If it worked in all cases it wouldn't be a rule of thumb, it would be an equation :-) Oh, and the last time I checked, wcarchive.cdrom.com (ftp.freebsd.org) with 512MB of memory did have 1GB of swap, split across many disks. I can double check that tomorrow though. N -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all the same. -- You are in a maze of twisty signature files all alike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message