Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:21:31 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [hackers] Re: swap & huge mem systems Message-ID: <15660.13531.896765.587888@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20020709023121.X11678-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net> References: <200207090527.g695R23C049724@apollo.backplane.com> <20020709023121.X11678-100000@dallben.homeportal.2wire.net>
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>>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon D Valentine <bandix@geekpunk.net> writes: Brandon> Allocating swap = physical RAM doesn't buy you any expansion Brandon> though. I always try to do at least twice physical RAM so Brandon> that if I ever double the RAM in my machine I'm still able to Brandon> catch crash dumps. It's not worth having to repartition the Brandon> drive to add more swap every time I add more RAM when a 120GB Brandon> 7.2k drive is ~$170. What's 2GB of swap on a 120GB disk or Brandon> even a 40GB disk for that matter? That's what old 6G disks are for. My current workstation (still on it's origional root disk) has way more then doubled it's RAM without a root transplant. At some point, when I was having problems, I realized I needed crash dumps... so I stuck in a 6G disk that is too slow for any other use. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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