Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 19:29:54 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: jadeite <jadeite@light.pomona.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970330192602.23137A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970330080649.13733A-100000@light.pomona.edu>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, jadeite wrote: > what is the rule of thumb for configuring the sizes of the SWAP, /, and > /var filesystems? > what types of programs use the SWAP a lot? > > For / and /var, the rule of thumb depends on what you do. For /, you can probably get along with a couple of tens on MB. I usually put 20-40MB for /. For /var, it depends. What goes in there is normally the mail spool, logs from all your daemons and, if you have a news server, the news spool. News can take multiple GBs for /var. For the rest, it depends mainly on how much mail/logs you expect to have. If you have a web/ftp sites with hundreds of thousands of hits aday and you log it all, it can also sum up to handreds of MBs for a couple of weeks. Other then that there's very little that goes in there, so a small personal workstation can get along with ~16MB. For swap, the main consumers are: Netscape gcc (x)emacs X11 anything complicated and big Nadav
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