From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 16:02:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16050 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hfdmail1.imagine.com (hfdmail1.imagine.com [204.249.166.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16042 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 16:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluehub1.imagine.com (204.249.166.25) by hfdmail1.imagine.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.1); Mon, 8 Jul 1996 19:14:03 -0400 Message-ID: <31E19354.4097@imagine.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 19:01:40 -0400 From: "Jeffrey M. and Sonya C. Metcalf" X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Increase swap space? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I recently upgraded my RAM from 16MB to 32MB. I typically run the following applications on FreeBSD: Netscape, TeX, emacs, and gcc There will probably never be any more than two users on my system at any given time. When I installed FreeBSD, I only dedicated 32MB to swap space. I have read some discussion that swap space for FreeBSD should be 32MB or 2.5 times physical memory, whichever is larger. Do you feel that I should increase swap space to get the optimal benefit from my new RAM upgrade? If so, is there a way to do this without reinstalling FreeBSD? I noticed some discussion in the FreeBSD FAQ concerning adding swap space. Should I just follow the procedure, or are there other concerns here? Thank You, JM -- Jeffrey M. and Sonya C. Metcalf 200 Ridgefield Drive Middletown, CT 06457 metcalf@imagine.com