From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 07:27:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA26675 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from silvester.zoom.es (root@silvester.zoom.es [195.76.150.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA26651 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 07:27:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amora@zoom.es) Received: from zoom181.zoom.es (zoom181.zoom.es [195.76.150.181]) by silvester.zoom.es (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA15481 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:30:06 +0200 Message-Id: <199710131430.QAA15481@silvester.zoom.es> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:06:01 +0000 Subject: Memory and swap size. Reply-to: amora@zoom.es Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! I have recently increased the RAM of my system from 16 to 32MB. The only swap partition in my FreeBSD slice is 48 MB. It's a generally accepted rule of thumb that the swap size should be at least twice the memory size, so this is not my case now. The questions are: a) What are the possible negative consequences of not fulfilling this recommendation? b) I have automated the dumping of the system in case of panic, using the swap partition as the dumpdev. Luckily, I haven't seen this yet for almost two years, after fixing some problem with an CD-ROM drive. Then, performing an postmortem debugging proved to be helpful, so I don't want to disable this feature. Can I get into trouble if a panic happens now? TIA, J.A.M.M ---- Jesus A. Mora Marin, MD (aka EA7HAC, ex-EC7DVE) Email: amora@zoom.es